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1700 ("Age of Revolutions" (Industrial revolution (Urbanisation,…

- - - - Creation of commuties
        
        birth of journalism
        
        Coffee houses
        
        cultural debate and gossip
  - - - "No taxation without representation"
        
        1773: Boston Tea Party
        
        1776: Declaration of indipendence
        
        1783: USA officially indipendent
        
        right to BE HAPPY
- - - - 60 years Whigs government
        
        Prime minister: Robert Walpole
        
        1721:South Sea bubble crisis
        
        anti-war government
        
        saved money cutting down the size of the army
        
        Prime minister: Wlliam Pitt
        
        stronger navy
        
        mercantilism: importance of trade for wealth
        
        new values of power, prestige, weallth
        
        everyone had to seize opportunitities in economy
        
        enrichment
        
        1745: Rebellion in Scotland
        
        Seven years' war
        
        Britain gained control over Quebec, West Africa and West Indies
        
        strategy: destroy French economy
        
        they met without the king
  - - - Britain gained asiento
        
        monopoly of the slave trade
        
        South Sea Company
        
        Took over the national debt and offered promising offers
        
        speculators invested
    - - single Parliament in Westminster
- - - - free mind from supestition
        
        Royal society: freedom of knowledge
      - education as a catalyst for social change
        
        Circulating libraries
        
        Sunday schools
      - reflection on nature and good savage
        
        Rousseau
      - Materialist society
        
        Individualism
        
        Utilitarism
        
        Invisible hand
        
        the richer the country is the happier the population is
        
        wordly, pragmatic, responsive to economic pressure
      - Rationalism
        
        negative exaggeration of common sense