1 gen 1831 anni - - population boom - popular disturbance

Descrizione:

- by this time the population had increased nearly six times in sixty years
- boom of the cotton industry in 1770s/80s explained the increasing development of towns
- squalor seen as necessary by-product of wealth


- Manchester enhanced its national reputation as a centre of social disturbances, even as a possible cradle of revolution

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: