ROMANTICISM

UNITED
KINGDOM
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UK

• George III of Hanover (1760-1820)

• British Naval hegemony

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INFLUENCES
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INFLUENCES

1776
American Revolution

1789
French Revolution
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1 INDUSTRIAL
st

REVOLUTION
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1 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
st

• Raw materials (coal and iron)

• Latest technological discoveries
(steam engine + spinning jenny)
• Middle-class wealth
• Cheap labour force
• Means of transport
• Markets in colonies + raw material from colonies
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1 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
st

Gap between rich and poor

Exploitation of workers in factories/mines

Pollution

Changed landscape
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AGRICULTURA
L REVOLUTION
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AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION

+ more efficient exploitation of the land

+ enclosures
+ technological developments

urbanization of former agricultural

workers left without job
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French American
Revolution Revolution

REVOLUTIONS

George III of
Hanover
(1760-1820)

1st
UNITED
INDUSTRIAL
KINGDOM
REVOLUTION

British Naval
hegemony subjectivity + feelings
VS
enlighted rationalism
AGRICULTURA +
stress on individual
+ more efficient
exploitation of the land L REVOLUTION and emotions
+
+ enclosures role of nature
+ technological
developments

urbanization of
former agricultural
workers left without job