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THE VICTORIAN AGE - Coggle Diagram
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THE VICTORIAN AGE
MEDICINE
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Burke and Hare:
killed, with a technique, now called “burking”, 16 people in order to sell fresh corpses to dr. Robert Knox.
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Other discoveries: X-ray, anethesia, cholera vaccine.
LIFE
Activities of the upper class:
teatime, gardening, theatre, literature.
The gentleman:
perfect, excellent education, sense of duty.
Fashion:
women wore corsets, petticoats, silk dresses with laces and ribbons;
men wore gilet and hats.
Life of the poor:
overcrowded, diseases, bad sanitation.
Children conditions:
mining, factories, domestic servive, chimney sweeping.
REFORMS
Social
Public health act (1848): first law to make government responsible for public health and to improve clean water and waste collection.
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Labor
Factory act:
to improve the working conditions, protect women and children, limit workhouses, improve safety and health in factories.
Ten hours act:
to limit the working hours of women and adolescents (13-18 years old) in textile factories to 10 hours a day.
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THE GREAT EXHIBITION
What?
First international exhibition of industry, art and design.
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Where?
Held in London in a gigantic pre-fabricated
building of iron and glass, the Crystal Palace.
POTATO FAMINE
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What? A disease that destroyed the potato crop -> starvation, emigration.
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ECONOMISTS
Adam Smith:
the father of modern economy, theory of the invisible hand.
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John Stuart Mill:
“On liberty”, “Principles of political economy”.
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THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Why?
ECONOMIC REASONS:
need for raw materials for industries, and colonies represented new markets
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Where?
India, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Canada, Australia, New Zeland.
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FOOD
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Working class (80%)
Bad quality of food, polluted water -> diseases (tubercolosis and smallpox)
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