Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0921 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bourgeoisie and the Nobility: Money and Titles Blur
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The idea
Marx was right, the anchor says, that the bourgeoisie were the agents of change: fifteen to twenty percent of central and western Europe by the early eighteen hundreds, self-made, hands clean, top-hatted, buying land because the vote was tied to it. Nobles, wary, married their money.
In practice
Manhood suffrage: France from eighteen forty-eight.
Where people slip
The anchor's eighteen seventy-one is corrected to forty-eight.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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