What attitudes did people have about these dramatic changes in Europe and America? How did elites shape or guide changing attitudes?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Positive attitudes about changes
1. appeal of industry was a form of enchantment
2. multiplied power and effected dazzling transformations
3. industrial technology represented, for its early witnesses, the triumph of
imagination over nature
4. admirers of mechanization saw it as romantic
5. engineers became heroes
B. Negative attitudes toward change
1. threatened the livelihoods of workers in traditional crafts
2. condemned production techniques that forced workers into the
backbreaking, disease-breeding environments of factories and mines
3. railways desecrated the countryside or damaged and stole the land
4. nostalgia for the fate of the land inspired artists, novelists, and reactionary
social movements
C. Elites help shape and guide attitudes
1. typically devoted their wealth to creating a rural idyll for themselves
2. sought to imitate the warrior aristocracy
3. created global inequalities of wealth and power
4. Japanese entrepreneurs insisted on motives for their work that were
connected with "honor" or patriotism rather than profit
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