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IAH 202--quiz 2
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Undergraduate 1
02/28/2012

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modernity
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a double, interlocking process of economic development and self-development
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economic development
Definition
global expansion of capitalist market that sweeps away feudal and ancestral limitations
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self-development
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expansion of individual life choices as people are freed from fixed social hierarchies
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why modernity?
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at heart of modernity stands radical transformation in relationship between human beings and their enviorment
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communist manifesto...
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is not text about communism--is a text about capitalism, analyzes it
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what kind of text is the communist manifesto?
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-historical product
-historical action
-a work of literature
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the context of the communist manifesto
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-french revolution
-industrial revolution
-economic crisis of 1847-1848
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what did text offer people at time?
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-new explanation for historical changes
-diagnosed social problems of time
-put forth program for overcoming problems of capitalism
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bourgeoisie
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modern capitalist, owners of the means of production and employers of wage labor--revolutionary class in capitalism
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proletariat
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modern laborers, have no means of production of their own--reduced to selling their labor power (themselves) in order to live--future revolutionaries
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communist solution
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collectivize the means of production
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what does communist manifesto say to readers today?
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-analysis of contradictions of capitalism
-prediction of globalization
-capitalism, globalization are not natural phenomena
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nation
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an imagined political community--an imagined as both inheretnly limited and sovereign
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nationalism
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ideology that held that all people derive their identities from their nations--defined by common language, culture, and sometimes religion
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nation state
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independent political state formed from a people who share a common national identity--any independent political state
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state
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human community that successfully claims that monopoly of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory
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congress of vienna
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face to face negotiations between ambassadors of the great European powers to settle boundaries of states and to determine who would rule each nation after Napoleon defeat
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concert of Europe
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regrouped boundaries of nations in Europe, reestablish conservative rule in Europe, wanted to go back to days before revolution--created resistance
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consequences of Revoltuions of 1848
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-spread of nationalism
-rise of social questions
-reassertion of conservative rule
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revolutions of 1848....
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failed, but had profound impact on political and social landscape of Europe--left popular sturggle against power
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how did bismarck bring about German Unification?
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-Iron: strenthening industrial power of german lands
-blood: engaging in series of wars
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romanticism
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intellectual, cultural, and artistic movement that reached its peak in first half of 19th century--centured in Germany and England
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main themes of romanticism
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-emotions
-imagination
-nature (power of nature)
-past
-travel
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the enlightenment vs. romanticism
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mans power over nature vs. natures power over man
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the romantics......
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rebelled against order, form, rules, social norms--were hippies of time but more aggressive
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Giovanni Aldini
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took men that had heads chopped off--ran electricity through them--believed spark of light is electrical fluid that flows through all living things
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Art in Romanticism
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-Neuroclassicism: lots of structure in painting
-Romanticism: sexuality, pain, death, desire, race
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What is happeneing to the Romantics?
Definition
they are living a life of constant internal turmoil
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