The “long nineteenth century” is a term that describes the period between about 1750 and 1914 (so, much more than a century!). This period saw rapid changes in the way people lived, worked, travelled, produced things, governed themselves, and connected to each other. Some of these changes were conflicting: for example, the rise of empires and nation-states at the same time, or the rise of ideas ab
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