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Converging Revolutions

 

Years

Definition
1780-1820
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Converging Revolutions 1780-1820

 

Description

Definition

Wars between Europeans or Europeans and Indigenous People caused financial fractures that cracked old-world powers

 

Northwestern Europe possessed more economic, intellectual, and political dynamic forces by end of 18th century (including political philosophies and military technologies)

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Between World Revolutions

 

Dates

Definition
c. 1815-1865
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Between World Revolutions

 

c. 1815-1865

 

Description

Definition

Europeans continue to extend their influence, but with tenuous controls,

 

Rise of Industrialism

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Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity

 

Dates

Definition
c. 1860-1900
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THE BIRTH OF THE MODERN WORLD: 1780-1914

 

Major Divisions

Definition

Converging Revolutions

Between World Revolutions

Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity

Conclusion: The Great Acceleration

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Nations, Empire, and Ethnicity


Dates

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1860-1900
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Nation, Empire, and Ethnicity, c. 1860-1900

 

Description

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Growing sense of nationalism

Also growing communications and influence across national boundaries

Example of internationalism: The Red Cross

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Conclusion: The Great Acceleration

 

Dates

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c. 1890-1914
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Conclusion: The Great Acceleration, c. 1890-1914

 

Description

Definition

New forms of capitalism in Germany and USA divorced ownership from management

 

Relative decline of Britain and rise of Japan/Germany

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Overview

 

Definition
Shows interdependence of world events, brute fact of western domination, and European domination only partial and temporary
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Lateral vs. Vertical History

Definition

Lateral History = connections

 

Vertical history = social/ideological developments

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Previous to Industrial Revolution

Great Change

Definition

Cause by

 

great domestication/settlement of the world

rise and decline of industrious revolutions

seaborne commerce

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Two 19th century trends

Definition

Desire for middle-class respectablility

centralized power of nation states

 

(According to Modernity nation states are a crucial element of modernity)

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Key Ideas

Definition

Argues for complex interaction between political organizations/ideas and economic realities

 

I.e. Industrialization at mid-19th century and wars in Europe, Asia, and America

 

 

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Modern self-awareness

Definition

Aware of Modernity

Felt movement toward a kind of paradise on earth (even Marx)

 

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Growing Uniformity

Definition
Example: changes in professional dress from 1780-1914 increasingly Western
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Most striking developments of the 19th century

Definition

Industrialism 

Rise of the huge, impersonal, metropolis

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Trends with Industrialism

Definition

Growing Urbanization

Development of the working class

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