Urbanization and Intellectual Movement Flashcards
main focus in steel production, oil , electricity , and chemicals
Second Industrial Revoution
population growth; Britain was first to experience Urban growth; population of Europe increased by 50% between 1870-1914; significant decline in mortality rates; lower birth rates
Urbanization
caused by Edwin Chadwick, the most famous reformer ; sanitary idea ; aqueduct system piped water would carry off excrement of communal outhouses; Britain passed 1st health law in 1848
Public Health Movement
most Famous reformer; influenced by Bentham’s utilitarianism; saw dieses as primary cost of poverty; sanitary idea
Edwin Chadwick
believed desiese could be prevented by cleaning up urban environment
“sanitary idea”
redeveloped Paris; wide boulevards (so no one could barricade the streets); middle class suburbs on outskirts of Paris; demolition of slums; creation of parks and open spaces
Georges von Haussmann
1895; ‘good old days’ before the war; increased standardize living in industrial countries; better living in Northern Europe; people gradually enjoyed higher wages and lower food prices; increased leisure time along with increased money to spend
“Belle Epoque”
came up with the ‘germ theory’; also began pasteurization
Louis Pasteur
fermentation caused by growth of living organisms and activity of these organisms could be sue pressed by heating beverage; reduces food poisoning ; created by Louis Pasteur
pasteurization
‘antiseptic principle’ in performing surgery; had to sanitize instruments and hands before/after surgery and clean surgery room; resulted in far fewer people dying of infection from surgeries
Joesph Lister
created periodic table
Dmetri Medeleev
electromagnetism; created generator of sorts ‘the dynamo’; led to electric motors, lights, street cars
Micheal Faraday
father of sociology; positivism; believed social scientists could help regulate society; thinks of science as religion and desires rule of experts
August Comte
said all intellectual activity goes through predictable stages and this humans would soon discover eternal laws of human relations through the study of sociology
positivism
wrote On Origin of Species; Theory of Evolution; all life gradually evolved from common ancestral origin of unending struggle for survival; big supporter was Thomas Huxley
Charles Darwin
big supporter of Darwin; ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’
Thomas Huxley
created Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest; natural laws dictated why certain people were successful and why others were not; very popular with the upper middle class
Herbert Spencer
considered one of the three giants in 19th century; believed humans are highly irrational creatures; the human subconscious (ID) was not subject to reason; emphasized sexuality was key driving force in ones psychological problems; founder of psychoanalysis which believed that patients originated in unhappy early childhood experiences where they repressed strong feelings; used hypnosis
Sigmund Freud
discovered first radioactive element in 1910; died of radiation poison
Marie Curie
split atom in 1919; postulated the structure of the atom with positively charged nucleus and negatively charged electrons
Ernest Rutherford
quantum theory; subatomic energy is emitted in uneven little spurts called ‘quanta’
Max Planck
Theory of Relativity of time and space challenged traditional ideas of Newtonian physics; e=mc^2
Albert Einstein
traditional ideas of Newtonian physics
theory of relativity
Pope Leo XIII sought to permit Catholics to participate in the politics of liberal science; condemned socialism and Marxism but defended capitalism; supported laws that protected workers from exploitation; pronouncement led to creation of Catholic parties and trade unions at the turn of the century
Rerum Novarum
belief the literature and art should depict life as it really was; largely reaction to the failed revolutions of 1848-1849 and subsequent loss of idealism
Realism
wrote Human Comedy and said society was grasping, amoral, and was undergoing social Darwinian struggle for power and wealth
Balzac
Madam Bovary; portrays provincial middle class as petty, smug, and hypocritical
Flaubert
write Tess of the d’Urbervilles
Hardy
giant of realistic literature; wrote Germinal about young miners in Northern France
Zola
means turn of the century
fin de siècle
thinks people are shaped by social class as well as own moral choices
Eliot
wrote War and Peace
Trotsky
father of modern drama; examined life morality often at odds with Victorian views of the day
Ibsen
coined term realism; painted ‘The Stone Breakers’
Courbet
painted the Gleaners depicts farm women gleaning field after harvest
Millet
painted the Third Class Carriage
Daumire
painted the Laundry Girls Ironing
Degas
is bridge artist between impressionist and realist; painted Luncheon on the Grass
Manet
sought to capture momentary overall feeling or impression of light falling on real life scene
Impressionism
is foremost impressionist painter and series painter; Impression Sunrise
Monet
painted Dance at Moulin
Renoir
considered true father of impressionism
Pissaro
is greatest female artist of 19th century
Morisot
painted Starry Night
Van Gogh
pioneered expressionist techniques and painted in South Pacific; painted Where Do We Come From
Gaugin
painted Apples and Oranges
Cezanne