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