How were the lives of the elites in different countries transformed by industrialization?

Question

What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

A. Transformation of the elites
1. aristocracies survived by diversifying from an emphasis on landed estates
into new economic activities
a. when they failed to adapt, they perished
2. Japan
a. government abolished samurai privileges in the 1870s
b. had to take jobs that were beneath them and rely on the
government
c. others declined into poverty and merged into ranks of commoners
3. China
a. families with inherited wealth had an advantage because they could
afford good schooling
b. tended increasingly to monopolize access to the scholar elite in the
nineteenth century
4. British
a. diversifying into commerce
b. marrying American heiresses
c. absorbing into its ranks the "beerage"—the new class of wealthy
entrepreneurs
d. landowners could benefit by mining coal and iron ore on their
estates or by leasing or selling the land to build towns and docks
5. United States
a. elite society more vulnerable to intrusion by the new rich because
the country had no landed aristocracy
6. outside the West
a. rise of new rich was probably the biggest change in the composition
of the elite
b. Westernization spread values and tastes distinct from those of
traditional aristocracies
1. architecture, dress and clothing styles