Industrial revolution and19c politics

population increase (think Malthus [1798])

  England France Germany
1800 10 million 27 million 25 million
1850 21 million    
1900 36 million 40 million 50 million
2000 60 million 60 million 80 million

Deaths per 1000 people per year

1850 ~ 35 per 1000 per year
1890 ~ 28 "
1940 ~ 18 "
2007

U.S. = 8 "
UK = 10 "

increase of urban populations

Public health - tuberculosis / cholera

Middle Class
professions, education
consumerism

Politics

Social Democracy
National Socialism