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Unit 4: 1750-1914

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  1. Questions of periodization
    1. Continuities and breaks; causes of changes from the previous period and within this period
  2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology
    1. Changes in patterns of world trade
    2. Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)
  3. Demographic and environmental changes (migrations: end of the Atlantic slave trade; new birthrate patterns; food supply; medicine)
  4. Changes in social and gender structure (Industrial Revolution; commercial and demographic developments; emancipation of serfs/slaves; tension between work patterns and ideas about gender; new forms of labor systems)
  5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideas
    1. United States and Latin American independence movements
    2. Revolutions (France, Haiti, Mexico, China)
    3. Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform
    4. Overlaps between nations and empires
    5. Rise of democracy and its limitations: reform, women, racism
  6. Rise of Western dominance (economic, military, political, social, cultural and artistic; patterns of expansion; imperialism, colonialism and neocolonialism) and different cultural and political reactions (dissent, reform, resistance, rebellion, racism, nationalism)
    1. Impact of changing European ideologies on colonial administrations
  7. Patterns of cultural and artistic interactions among societies in different parts of the world (African and Asian influences on European art; cultural policies of Meiji Japan)
  8. Diverse interpretations
    1. What are the debates about the causes and effects of serf and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?
    2. What are the debates over the nature of women’s roles in this period? How do these debates apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply in colonial societies?
    3. What are the debates over the causes of European/British technological innovation versus development in Asia/China?

 

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