THE TRIUMPH OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES:

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CHAPTER 24

• THE TRIUMPH OF THE MIDDLE CLASSES
• WESTERN ECONOMIC, SCIENTIFIC, INTELLECTUAL, AND
  CULTURAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, 1815-1914

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The Middle Classes and Their Influences

• Upstairs, Downstairs
• The English Example
• Middle-Class Christianity

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The Human Costs of Industrialization

• The Factory System
• Women and Child Labor
• Urban Crises
• The Labor Movement
• The Internationals and Europes Socialism

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The Second Industrial Revolution

• Food and Population Increases
• The Ties That Bind New Networks
• Industrialization and Banking Changes on the
  Continent
• The Zollverein

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Scientific Advances

• Darwin and Evolution
• Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics

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Technological Growth and Advances

• Electricity
• Engines
• Laborsaving Devices

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Economic Bases for Global Dominance

• New Structures
• The New World Economy
• Political Implications

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Culture Reflections of the Age

• Romanticism
• Realism
• Beethoven and His Successors
• Impressionism in the Arts
• Sculpture and Architecture