After you've read each chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Describe factors distinguishing the "second industrial revolution";
- Assess the effects of economic expansion on various social classes in urban
and rural areas;
- Discuss the rise and spread of industrial middle-class values;
- Explain how the state increasingly interfered in people's daily lives;
- Describe how Europeans dealt with urbanization's challenges and changes;
- Analyze how Charles Darwin both reflected and shaped intellectual trends
of his era;
- Discuss the impact of science and secularism on Western cultural development.
