VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)

BRITISH EMPIRE

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

CONSUMER REVOLUTION

VICTORIAN COMPROMISE

queen Victoria to the throne

increased number of consumers

new markets

consumers boom

prosperity for middle and upper class

chaotic change

cities expanded fast

economy

birth of new markets

production of new goods

respectability

moral code

urban and village shops

hypocrisy

Biggest empire ever

Britain = world's most powerful nation

25 % of the world's population

20 % of the world's surface

society

upper and middle class

richer

Progress

Industrial revolution

workers class

diseases, injustice, poverty

patriarchy

repressed sexuality