Blog #7 - Part 5, Ch- 17, 18, & 20

Part 5 The "long nineteenth century" 1750 -1914

Two themes for this era:
1. Creation of new "modern" human society - Scientific, French, and Industrial revolutions
2. Growing ability of these modern societies to exercise enormous power and influence over the rest of human kind

Eurocentrism: Geography and History

Five responses to countering Eurocentrism
1. remind ourselves the relativity of time and space this took place in comparison to the rest of the history.
2. rise of Europe occurred within an int'l context, It was the withdrawal of the Chinese naval fleet that allowed Europeans to dominate the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century, while the Native Americans lacked immunity to the European diseases as well as their own divisions.
3. They had to be flexible and sometimes bend their rules.
4. Other peoples benefited from the European advancements. These global changes the modern era arose.
5. They were not the only game in town, nor were they the sole pre-occupants of the world.

CHAPTER 17: Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes, 1775–1914

+ Comparing Atlantic Revolutions
Thomas Jefferson advise the French on the eve of the French Revolution.
Simon Bolivar visited Haiti twice before the Mexican Revolution, receiving Military aid.
European enlightenment was shared across the alt antic, the questioning of the past government and entitlements.

• The North American Revolution, 1775–1787 - Independence from Britain, preserve their autonomous ways, not pay taxes to the British, and practice the Enlightenment way of government. Republic enthusiasm. French soldiers aided the Americans.
• The French Revolution, 1789–1815- War between the commoners and the Priveleged rights. Unlike the Americans, who sought to restore or build upon earlier freedoms, Frech revolutionaries perceived themselves to be starting from scratch and looked to the future. Abolishing Aristocracy.
• The Haitian Revolution, 1791–1804 - True slave revolt, bottom level became the top.
• Spanish American Revolutions, 1810–1826- The imperial state was destroyed in Spanish America, but colonial society was preserved. Basically the taxes that were sent back to Spain, stopped but nothing changed politically or socially.

+ Echoes of Revolution

• The Abolition of Slavery
• Nations and Nationalism
• Feminist Beginnings

CHAPTER 18: Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750–1914

+ Explaining the Industrial Revolution

• Why Europe?
• Why Britain?

+ The First Industrial Society

• The British Aristocracy
• The Middle Classes
• The Laboring Classes
• Social Protest Among the Laboring Classes

+ Variations on a Theme: Comparing the United States and Russia

• The United States: Industrialization without Socialism
• Russia: Industrialization and Revolution

+ The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the Nineteenth Century

• After Independence in Latin America
• Facing the World Economy
• Becoming Like Europe?

CHAPTER 20: Colonial Encounters, 1750–1914

+ A Second Wave of European Conquests

+ Under European Rule

• Cooperation and Rebellion
• Colonial Empires with a Difference

+ Ways of Working: Comparing Colonial Economies

• Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State
• Economies of Cash-Crop Agriculture: The Pull of the Market
• Economies of Wage Labor: Working for Europeans
• Women and the Colonial Economy: An African Case Study
• Assessing Colonial Development

+ Believing and Belonging: Cultural Change in the Colonial Era

• Education
• Religion
• “Race” and “Tribe”

Note: Info comes from The Ways of the World, A brief Global History textbook by Robert W. Strayer, website, http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/strayer1e/default.asp?