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= Unit 9: Urban Industrial Society (Ch. 24) =



= Overview of Chapter 24: =

This chapter is narrowly focused on city life in Western Europe in the second half of the 19th century. It details how life changed in the cities for the rich, poor and those in between. Special attention is paid to the ways that families coped with the challenges and opportunities of urban living. The change from rural to urban lifestyles impacted childrearing, gender roles, kinship ties and patterns of marriage. The chapter ends with a discussion of how science changed traditional ideas and culture. This can be seen in Darwin’s theory of evolution, realism in literature, advances in biology, physics and the social sciences.

You may have noticed that chapters 25 and 26 also covered the same time period and demonstrated some of the same themes that are discussed in Ch. 24. In a typical AP-style essay question, you might be asked about a topic such as political protests in the 19th century. You would be expected to synthesize examples from several different chapters in order to answer such a question.

Ch 24 Key Vocabulary
Ch 24 Reading Questions for pp779 to 786 and pp797 to 804 Reading Questions for pp786 to 797 Reading Questions for pp804 to 809

Reading Assignments for Chapter 24
•Taming the City 779-785 •Social Classes 786-796 Changing Family Patterns 797-803 [class work: group presentations?] •Science, New Ideas, Cultural Changes 804-809 •Annotated Mona Lisa Assignments Romanticism, Realism, Architecture 76- 79, 83-85, 89-90 Impressionism 96, 99-101,101-109 (combined w. studying for test or w. a short reading)