Spanish Society in the 19th Century
Economy and industrialisation
Industrial Revolution was late and slow, only Basque Country, Catalonia and large cities.
Population still worked in the fields England or Germany used machinery.
Railway, didn´t appear until the second half of the century.
Steam locomotive and steamship, main forms of transport. First train line Barcelona Mataró in 1848.
SOCIETY
Bourgeosie became rich and became the dominant social class.
The Industrial Revolution brought serious social problems very bad working conditions and child explotation. In rural areas, the peasants extreme poverty. Political demands or the working class.
New social classes, and the bourgeoisie were now the upper class lived in modern neighbourhoods.
Poor neighbourhoodswith bad living conditions. Lower classes, like factory workers, livid here.Coal caused serious polution.
ART AND CULTURE
Impressionism
At the end of the century, technological advances reflected on their work.
SCIENTIFIC ADVANCES
Several researchers scientific advances Ramón and Cajal first Nobel Prize.