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    well as getting beaten ‘brutally by overseers’ if they ever took a break. These horrors during the 18th century are highlighted by Charles Dickens ‘Oliver Twist’ and child exploitation in the eyes of child labourer Robert Blincoe. Although Hopkins puts forward a convincing argument he fails to see the impact of legislation in the early 19th century put in place to combat this. Conditions in factories can be seen as immoral and harsh and it is important to see how the government recognised this and

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    “modern” Britain have emerged over which century proved most significant in its development. While the 18th and 20th centuries do offer some important developments into this creation‚ the 19th century offers the most in creating a “modern” Britain. The industrial‚ agricultural‚ political‚ technological‚ social‚ economic‚ cultural‚ religious‚ military‚ judicial‚ educational‚ and imperial changes made to Britain during this period prove that the nineteenth century is the most significant in creating a

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    The 19th century was characterized by sharp contradictions. In many ways it was an age of progress: railways and ships were built‚ great scientific discoveries were made‚ education became more widespread; but al the same time it was an age of profound social unrest‚ because there was too much poverty‚ too much injustice. The growth of scientific inventions mechanized industry and increased wealth‚ but this progress only enriched the few at the expense of the many. Dirty factories‚ long hours of work

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    Social Darwinism gained popularity in European nations in the late 19th century and early 20th century. Social Darwinism supports the idea that people were engaged in a competition or “struggle for survival” in which the weakest people and nations would be destroyed and dominated while the strong grew in power and influence. Great Britain applied this idea to China and infiltrated the land and its systems. The British would send missionaries throughout the land and try to convert the Chinese to Christianity

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    Over the span of the 19th century‚ the European Empire expanded physically with the colonization of Africa‚ and mentally through advances in technology and education. Despite the fact that the world was changing‚ European women had the enormous pressure set upon them to stay exactly as they had always been. Through this paper‚ readers will better understand the limits and restrictions that 19th-century women bodies and sexuality had placed upon them‚ and how colonization‚ plus the emergence of the

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    whether it’s about tax equality‚ military service‚ or the right to marry. 150 years ago‚ it was an even larger portion of the population’s turn: women. Throughout the 19th century and into the 20th‚ women fought for equal rights under the law and most importantly the right to vote. In both North America and Europe in the 19th century‚ women and men were expected to fill separate spheres of society. Men were expected to live a public life‚ whether it was working in a factory or socializing with like-minded

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    Women’s Rights 19th century |Several activists in antislavery joined the women’s rights movement. Lucy Stone‚ Susan B. Anthony‚ Matilda Joslyn Gage‚ Abby Kelley | |Foster‚ and Sojourner Truth are among the most well known. Angelina Grimke and her sister‚ Sarah Grimke worked for women’s rights after a | |career as antislavery lecturers. | |Wendell Phillips‚ William Lloyd Garrison‚ and

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    Hysteria‚ a disorder associated widely with women in the late 19th century‚ has since disappeared from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Although this diagnosis has gradually declined‚ during the late 19th century there was an increase of European women with this doctors’ diagnosis. The leading medical experts in Europe believed various different cause along with a symptomology expression. Sigmund Freud‚ Jean Charcot and Josef Breuer were some of the experts who were proposing

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    status of European Women from the sixteenth to early twenty first century. Women in the sixteenth‚ seventeenth‚ and eighteenth centuries were challenged with expressing themselves in a government controlled by men a system that generally refused to grant permissions to women’s views. Cultural and political events during these centuries increased attention to women’s issues such as education reform‚ and by the end of the eighteenth century‚ women were not able to speak out against injustices. Though modern

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    • The Enlightenment in 18th and 19th century Europe was a movement focused on the primary source of authority and legitimacy. The work of thinkers Aguste Comte‚ Karl Marx‚ George Simmel‚ Hebert Spencer‚ Emile Durkheim‚ and Max Weber were all major influencers of the Enlightenment in the 18th and 19th century on the development of sociological theory. Aguste Comte is the French sociologist who founded sociology in 1836. The Enlightenment was a time period of development and change in philosophical

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