tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34514003281617182112024-03-13T10:31:04.804-07:00History 124 - World Civilizations from 1650Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-56936547440842961092011-04-27T13:21:00.000-07:002011-04-27T13:21:02.318-07:00Last Lecture for 124! Freedom Movements.I'm trying something new. I hope it works!<br />
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The Kitchen Debate is famous - took place in 1959 between Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev and (then) Vice President of the United States, Richard Nixon. It looks jovial enough, but the Truman Doctrine and NSC-68 committed the United States to the idea of "Containment." That is, of containing Communism. Containing the spread of Communism would lead to the emergence of "Proxy Wars" - often tied to the theme of Decolonization. <br />
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As former colonized nations gained independence, a race began for the ideology of these peoples - between Communism and Capitalism. Although this is not precisely true. It was more of a fight between the American and Soviet spheres of influence.<br />
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Why would the Soviet system appeal to some of these decolonized nations? What made their message so powerful? What was the reality of Soviet expansion? <br />
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Here is a map showing the vast area "decolonized" between 1945 and 1975<br />
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A Communist Vietnamese representation of Dien Bien Phu<br />
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Scenes from the fall of Saigon in 1975<br />
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A pretty heartrending video about refugees toward the end of Angola's civil war in 2002 - when neither the USA or the Soviet union cared so much any more about the outcome:<br />
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Douglas MacArthur<br />
Marshall Plan<br />
NATO<br />
Proxy wars<br />
Partitioning of India<br />
Africa for Africans<br />
Leopold Senghor<br />
Zionism<br />
Ben Gurion<br />
Mau Mau Rebellion<br />
Sharpesville Massacre<br />
Great Leap Forward<br />
Cultural Revolution<br />
Fulgencio BatistaDr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-45400997504945081882011-04-11T13:13:00.000-07:002011-04-11T13:13:55.122-07:00The End of a Hot War, the Beginning of a Cold OneThe Germans had been working on some pretty impressive weapons systems. None with more ramifications for the Cold War than the V2 Rocket:<br />
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The partitioning of Germany<br />
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The Berlin Airlift marked an important turning point in the Cold War. It also marked the moment when Berlin became a focal point for international Cold War intrigue for the next forty years. Think about this "news" reel in the context of propaganda. How important was mass media in the Cold War? We'll be returning to that idea.<br />
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The postwar fate of Vietnam has everything to do with the global gambit of the Cold War: <br />
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And in 1949, China goes Red.<br />
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As the Soviets took hold of the Eastern Bloc, not everybody was keen on the idea. In 1956, the Hungarians revolted against being part of the "buffer zone" for the Soviet Union. Again, think of the propaganda on display here:<br />
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The First World War left many old questions unanswered. In contrast, World War II definitely provided answers, many of which were quite startling. Today we will consider the fates of nations in the context of the Second World War.<br />
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"Old Europe" <br />
Latin America<br />
Japan<br />
China (and Southeast Asia)<br />
The Soviet Union<br />
The United States<br />
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We're also going to go over how the war unfolds, because it is important for understanding why these nations bear their fates.<br />
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The War in EuropeDr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-11844691234112454852011-04-03T18:52:00.000-07:002011-04-04T13:11:15.760-07:00The Rise of Mass MediaToday we are going to consider how the emergence and rise of mass media in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century changed the way governments and institutions communicated with the people, how ideas spread, and how technology enabled a small group of people to break conventions and communicate with others in ways never before possible.<br />
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First, there was the rise of print culture in the late nineteenth century. A lot of this had to do with the emergence of <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/lith/hd_lith.htm">color lithography</a> and the invention of photolithography (which is now extensively used in the computer you are using to manufacture printed circuit boards). Here is a great design blog that I found <a href="http://thinkdesignblog.com/resources-the-evolution-of-print-advertising.htm">that supplies an overview with images of the emergence of print advertising</a>. <br />
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Advertising may have been the first major outlet to embrace color lithography, but what is advertising anyway? (Answers... you fans of <a href="http://www.amctv.com/originals/madmen/"><i>Mad Men</i></a>?) Some people are even cynical to refer to advertising as propaganda. Is that fair?<br />
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The First World War was the first place to see extensive use of color lithography in conjunction with government propaganda. Let's look at <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/posters/australia.htm">some of these posters</a> from the war. What sort of messages are they trying to convey? How might they reflect the newly emergent field of psychology? <br />
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Radio was in its infancy during the First World War, but emerged as a powerful force in the consumer market very shortly thereafter. In fact, the United States Census asked Americans whether or not they owned a radio in the home in 1930, it was that profound of a phenomenon.<br />
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Radio was not often live in its early years. In fact, it was produced (and carefully controlled) so as to deliver a specific message. Often actors and not the actual historical figures, filled the speaking roles on the radio - like in <a href="http://www.otr.com/ra/news/MOT_1934-10-5.mp3">this recording</a> from <i>Time</i> Magazine's "March of Time." <br />
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Of course, if you couldn't read or write, you could still enjoy the radio. Think about the implications of that. The first global sporting event was the famous fights in 1936 and 1938 <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/fight/sfeature/index.html">between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling</a> held in Yankee Stadium. <br />
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With the radio came the rise of a media form with which we are very familiar today - the news reel, or the forerunner of the television news broadcast. Newsreels used to play in advance of another emergent cultural phenomenon, the cinema. That is, while you were waiting for the movie to start. Some were not very exciting, like this film of Mussolini speaking in 1932:<br />
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But as the art grew more sophisticated, we begin to see clear editorial choices designed to evoke an emotional response in the viewer.<br />
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Here is an early reel from the Lindbergh Baby case (Lindbergh himself a victim of mass media)<br />
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Or the "Year in Review" From 1935 <br />
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The power of radio, print, and newsreel (as well as cinema) came from the rise of what we call SYNDICATION.<br />
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The newsreel took cues from cinema itself. The first feature-length film, D.W. Griffith's <i>Birth of a Nation</i> glorified the Lost Cause ideology of the Civil War and lionized the Ku Klux Klan. A cinematic masterpiece, it premiered in 1915.<br />
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Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, FDR, Churchill, all understood the importance of cinematic propaganda - either in feature films or in newsreels. <br />
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<i>Drums Along the Mohawk</i> is one of the films from the legendary year of 1939. It strikes a theme of hope in a time of travail - a message resonant in Great Depression Era America. <br />
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The most famous cinematic effort at propaganda during the 1930s, however, has to be Lene Reifenstahl's <i>Triumph of the Will</i>. <br />
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The emergence of World War II will bring imagery of conflict to a much greater audience than ever before possible - but it (like today's news) will be carefully stage managed. <br />
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This incredible Japanese propaganda war footage from 1942 was even in color:<br />
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The League of Nations began after World War I as a body designed to preclude another disastrous war like the one just concluded. Along with a bunch of platitudes about respecting the rights of minorities and national boundaries, it placed a lot of hypothetical restrictions on military spending - especially navies. Part of this was self-preservation - navies were expensive. Especially when countries like the USA and Japan could afford to spend more than European nations. But not everybody bought into these restrictions, and it was very unequally followed until the system broke down entirely in the 1930s. <br />
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Japan had been on the move ever since the Meiji Restoration. Building up a powerful army and navy, the most modern in the region, it sought to put this force to good use. The First Sino-Japanese war in 1895 resulted in significantly increased Japanese presence in the Korean Peninsula. This same war gave control of Taiwan to Japan. In 1904-05, the Japanese Empire fought Russia and drove the Czarist forces from Korea completely, leading to Japan's annexation of the peninsula in 1910. Japan used WWI to sieze German holdings in the South Pacific. This was followed by the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 and the second Sino-Japanese war in 1937, which featured the Rape of Nanking. There is a lot of information about this event on the web. Who controls it? We will discuss this.<br />
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So what drove the Japanese to expand in such a fashion? And what was the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere?<br />
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Mussolini was the first true practical progenitor of the theory of Fascism. <a href="http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/mussolini-fascism.html">This is his description of the system</a>, which is worth reading. Hitler may have gone farther, but you could argue that Mussolini was the real innovator. Of course the Fascists could produce excellent consumer goods, an act of which you could not accuse the Soviets.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">But we must consider how Mussolini came to power. Was it just because he supposedly made the "trains run on time?" Perhaps we should consider what was going on in post World War I France with regard to the emergence of Socialist, Communist, and Democratic (and Fascist) wings of the government. What role did violence play in turning the tide?</div><br />
Even the Russians freely admit that Stalin was a sociopath, and the "<a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html">Revelations of the Russian Archives</a>" presented by the Library of Congress does much to document that. <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">What was the Cult of the Personality and who was Leon Trotsky? What happened to ol' Leon? </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">How would you like to be one of these friends? Here is <a href="http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/a2rykov.html">a letter from one of them</a>.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">As <a href="http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.k.harrington/dizzy.html">this <i>Pravda</i> puff piece from 1930 indicates</a>, the Soviets were not above lying about the success of their collectivization activities. </div>Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-84849492579292636082011-03-27T16:24:00.000-07:002011-03-28T11:05:20.894-07:00The Troubled Origins of the Modern Middle EastThe Ottoman Empire in 1914<br />
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Today we are going to look at how the collapse of the Ottoman Empire following the First World War set into motion much of the central tensions that we find in the modern Middle East.<br />
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Some of the terms that I'll be using in this lecture include:<br />
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Damascus<br />
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Balfour Declaration: which reads... His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country." <br />
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Zionism<br />
Palestine<br />
Franco-Syrian War of 1920<br />
San Remo Conference <br />
Class A,B, and C League of Nations Mandates<br />
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The emergence of modern Turkey and<br />
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk<br />
Kingdom of Iraq<br />
1936-39 Arab Revolt<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">First off, I think it is important that you recall that Britain's King George V, Kaiser Wilhelm II, and Tsar Nicholas II were <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/britain_wwone/cousins_at_war_01.shtml">COUSINS</a>. They were all grandsons of Queen Victoria of Great Britain. They also looked a lot alike.</div><br />
After the <a href="http://www.firstworldwar.com/battles/jutland.htm">Battle of Jutland</a>, the Germans had few naval options. We'll spend some time looking at the age-old world of commerce raiding and how the Germans came to the game too late and in the wrong way during the First World War. Some old ways just couldn't be converted to modern means!<br />
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The BBC put together this <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/animations/western_front/index_embed.shtml">excellent Flash map</a> about the fighting during World War I on the Western Front. We're going to look at it today. <br />
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One of the key problems with fighting WWI was that mobility technology hadn't caught up with firepower technology, at least on land. <br />
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<span style="color: #ffcc99;">** my aside: you don't say? </span><br />
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Some casualty figures stolen from another website: <br />
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<pre><b>Mobilized</b> <b>Dead</b> <b>Wounded</b> <b>Missing/PoW</b>
Russia 12,000,000 1,700,000 4,950,000 2,500,000
<span style="color: red;"><b>Germany</b></span> 11,000,000 1,773,700 4,216,058 1,152,800
Great Britain 8,904,467 908,371 2,090,212 191,652
France 8,410,000 1,375,800 4,266,000 537,000
<span style="color: red;"><b>Austria-Hungary</b></span> 7,800,000 1,200,000 3,620,000 2,200,000
Italy 5,615,000 650,000 947,000 600,000
US 4,355,000 126,000 234,300 4,526
<span style="color: red;"><b>Turkey</b></span> 2,850,000 325,000 400,000 250,000
<span style="color: red;"><b>Bulgaria</b></span> 1,200,000 87,500 152,390 27,029
Japan 800,000 300 907 3
Rumania 750,000 335,706 120,000 80,000
Serbia 707,343 45,000 133,148 152,958
Belgium 267,000 13,716 44,686 34,659
Greece 230,000 5,000 21,000 1,000
Portugal 100,000 7,222 13,751 12,318
Montenegro 50,000 3,000 10,000 7,000</pre><pre></pre>Some <a href="http://www65.statcan.gc.ca/acyb02/1947/acyb02_19471126002-eng.htm">interesting statistics</a> from the Canadian government on how casualty rates compared between the two world wars. <br />
In short, Canada on the above table would fit between Italy and Russia with 13.5% of soldiers killed in battle. 47.3% were wounded, which comes second only to France. Six out of every ten Canadians were killed or wounded in the Great War.<br />
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Over 6.5 of every 10 soldiers from France were either wounded or killed in the First World War. This figure is 5.4 Germany and 5.9 for Austria-Hungary. One-Third of all British soldiers were killed or wounded. Only 8% of American soldiers shared this fate. <br />
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Because so many men were mobilized (and if you consider the shadow of civilian mobilization) you might consider how that would change the societies from which the combatants came.<br />
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Here is a link to a great film about the War Poets <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen">Wilfred Owen</a><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b>After the war (a prelude to a coming lecture.)</b></div><br />
A great page on <a href="http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Eug00/3on1/radioshow/1920radio.htm">the early radio</a> by the University of Virginia<br />
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A scene from Charlie Chaplin's <i>Modern Times</i><br />
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Treaty of Brest-Litovsk<br />
Vladimir Lenin<br />
Treaty of Versailles<br />
Liberal Capitalism<br />
Authoritarianism (Totalitarianism)<br />
Bolsheviks<br />
Whites (not the band, Jack, etc.)<br />
Fascism<br />
Beer Hall Putsch<br />
The Enabling Act<br />
Shinto<br />
zaibatsu<br />
Getúlio Vargas<br />
satyagraha<br />
Salt March<br />
Nehru<br />
Chiang Kai-shek<br />
White Wolf<br />
Mustafa Kemal "Ataturk"Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-87989565088497580162011-03-20T12:22:00.000-07:002011-03-22T15:34:22.780-07:00Your Extra Credit Opportunity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.noma.org/images/hakuin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="306" src="http://www.noma.org/images/hakuin.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />
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I have been hounded for extra credit opportunities for this class. I seldom offer such opportunities. BUT, I will offer ONE opportunity for extra credit, and it will require some effort on your part. If you cannot make it to this event, that is just bad luck. <br />
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Our event will be on Friday evening, April 8, at the New Orleans Museum of Art. They have a <a href="http://www.noma.org/exhibitions.html">traveling exhibit on display</a> that features Zen Calligraphy. Titled "The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin" <br />
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As part of this exhibit, they have a lecture and demonstration titled "The Creation of Zen Calligraphy" at 6:30 PM on Friday, April 8. My plan is for you to go tour the exhibit at 5:00 PM and attend the lecture at 6:30. I will be there with a sign-in page. <br />
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If you attend this lecture, I will boost your first test grade by 10 percent, or an ENTIRE letter grade.Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-78691002161145231052011-03-15T09:03:00.000-07:002011-03-15T09:03:32.179-07:00Lecture QuestionI said that I would add a question from the first lecture after Test 1, and here it is:<br />
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Describe how the tension between modernity and traditionalism fueled discord in Western nations between 1815 and 1900, considering case studies of England, France, Germany, the U.S.A., and Japan.Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-26856581437911132442011-03-14T09:30:00.000-07:002011-03-14T09:30:27.835-07:00National Modernity in the East<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gwhxxxUT8Qk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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An early scene from <i>55 Days at Peking</i><br />
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We'll talk a little bit about this American movie made in 1963 and the memory of the Boxer Rebellion. <br />
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But overall, we'll be talking about anti-colonial movements and the formation of modern states in India and China at the turn of the twentieth century.Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-90861050484057897552011-03-13T22:15:00.000-07:002011-03-13T22:15:57.715-07:00Chapter 18: Review Terms and QuestionsCultural Modernism<br />
uitlanders<br />
Boxer Rebellion<br />
"spheres of influence" versus the "open door"<br />
Labor Party (Britain) - (what did it signify?)<br />
Porfirio Díaz<br />
Diego Rivera<br />
Sigmund Freud and Friedrich Nietzsche <br />
Popular culture: lithographs, vaudeville, professional sports, newspapers<br />
Pablo Picasso<br />
Shanghai School<br />
Sun Yat-Sen<br />
Swadeshi<br />
Pan-Islamicism<br />
Pan-Germanism<br />
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How did German unity foster new rivalries in Europe?<br />
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What was Bismark's approach to social unrest among the poor?<br />
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In what way was the Boxer Rebellion anti-modern? How did this differ dramatically from the political vision of Sun Yat-Sen?<br />
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How did the Swadeshi movement differ from earlier revolutionary movements in India?Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-52174837923676752242011-03-01T13:03:00.000-08:002011-03-02T13:21:20.721-08:00Into Africa<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="640" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5lyf5FJPtCY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
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Voortrekkers</div><div style="text-align: left;">Isandlwana </div><div style="text-align: left;">Rorke's Drift</div><div style="text-align: left;">Cecil Rhodes</div><div style="text-align: left;">Boer War 1899-1902</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jameson Raid</div><div style="text-align: left;">Kimberly Diamond Fields</div><div style="text-align: left;">Orange Free State</div><div style="text-align: left;">South African Republic (Transvaal Republic)</div><div style="text-align: left;">Witwatersrand Gold Rush<br />
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Phrenology<br />
Darwin<br />
Scientific Racism<br />
Eugenics<br />
Professionalization of Engineering<br />
Communications revolution<br />
New Steel and its ramifications<br />
Chemistry and modern science <br />
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I'll post terms and questions from Chapter 17 soon!Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-55485703755216465662011-02-21T10:58:00.000-08:002011-02-21T10:58:38.938-08:00The Messy World of Messianic VisionariesToday we will look at one particular brand of discontent that flourished in the nineteenth century. Faced with profound and unpleasant social change, societies around the globe produced messianic visionaries who preached the virtues of spiritual rebirth as a means to reversing the trends of modernity. Universally unsuccessful in the 19th Century, we will look at the parallels that we find within our own time.Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-45495027564203039982011-02-21T10:57:00.000-08:002011-02-21T10:57:32.805-08:00Chapter 16 termsWounded Knee<br />
Abd Al-Wahhab<br />
Muwahhadin<br />
Dan Fodio<br />
Mfecante<br />
Shaka Zulu<br />
Hong Xiuquan<br />
Taiping Rebellion<br />
Congress of Vienna 1815<br />
Charles Fourier<br />
Karl Marx<br />
Friedrich Engels<br />
Tenskwatawa (The Prophet)<br />
Tecumseh<br />
War of the Yucatan<br />
Awadh<br />
Sepoy Rebellion<br />
Greased Cartridge controversyDr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-73028444002656273172011-02-16T08:30:00.000-08:002011-02-16T08:30:58.877-08:00Traditionalism vs. Modernity Part I: The Struggle for the Modern StateToday we are going to look at the troubles that plagued Europe and the West in general during the middle of the 19th Century.<br />
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The nations that emerged victorious against Napoleon believed that the <a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/history/forpol/vienna.html">Congress of Vienna in 1815</a> would not only stabilize Europe and prevent another age of warfare, that it would also turn back the clock on some of the fundamental changes that had taken root since the French Revolution.<br />
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The Bourbon Kings who emerged after 1815 in France exemplified this reactionary impulse, but as we shall see, it was not only the old nobles who sought a return to the old ways. We'll view this through the rise of France's Second Republic and Second Empire.<br />
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At the same time, people across England and Europe saw the post-Napoleonic period as a time for solidifying some of the basic rights gained under the age of "enlightenment." Basic reforms such as freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, and universal male suffrage became rallying cries of the people. We will look at this through the failed bid for German nationhood.<br />
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The struggle between Modernity and Traditionalism spread to America and Japan as well, and we'll briefly explore these two conflicts in the context of this philosophical rift. <br />
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Lastly, even more radical thinkers emerged out of this turmoil, and we'll spend some time looking at them.<br />
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Some terms that will appear in today's lecture:<br />
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<a href="http://www.victorianweb.org/victorian/history/hist3.html">Charterist Movement</a> (England)<br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_of_France">Charles X</a> of France <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_III_of_France">Louis Napoleon</a>, a.k.a. Napoleon III<br />
<a href="http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=s000151">Carl Schurz</a><br />
<a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Richard+Wagner">Richard Wagner</a><br />
<a href="http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/japan/japanworkbook/modernhist/meiji.html">Meiji Restoration</a> <br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida_Community">Utopianism</a><br />
<a href="http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html">Karl Marx</a>Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-58050244500233629572011-02-16T08:29:00.000-08:002011-02-16T08:29:18.068-08:00Chapter 17: terms and review questionsWhat motivated Canadians to expand westward and how did these motivations compare and contrast with those that animated Brazilians?<br />
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How did the Germans forge a united nation? What problems did they encounter?<br />
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How did Africa's national boundaries come into being?<br />
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How did the Japanese under the Meiji Restoration attempt to reinvigorate national pride and unity?<br />
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What spurred the Japanese to conquer lands in mainland Asia? How was this similar to Britain?<br />
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How did the Russian Empire differ economically from Britain and Japan? How was it the same? How did the differenes lead to economic problems?<br />
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How did China's efforts and modernization differ from those of Japan? Why?<br />
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Social Darwinism<br />
India & "home charges"<br />
Emperor Menelik II<br />
Henry Morton Stanley<br />
New Orientalism (p. 749)<br />
Commodore Perry<br />
Meiji Restoration<br />
Self-Strengthening MovementDr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-70833303581271279402011-02-14T08:01:00.000-08:002011-02-14T08:01:27.270-08:00Grading your TestsI've been grading your tests, and it is clear that while a number of you did very well on the matching, some of you have not. I can accept that there can be confusion on matching sections, but remember that these terms all appeared on the blog, greatly narrowing down the terms that you needed to know for the exam.<br />
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In the future, here is a tip: If you see a word among the selections that you don't remember from the blog, it is probably not going to be a correct answer. I put these in there for people who don't study, and frankly, for my own entertainment. Now some of you did very well - I think a reflection of reading and studying. Congrats! For the rest of you, we need to know whether or not you missed these because your study methods are insufficient.<br />
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But without further ado: <br />
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"Raja Miripuri" is actually my neighbor, Shawn Miripuri, who while Indian and a fantastic neighbor, has not to my knowledge ever been a Mughal leader. "King" Juan Valdèz might ring a bell if you remember these following commercials:<br />
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I just plain made up "Giuseppe the Navigator" because it seemed like fun, as well as "The Great Restoration" and the "Treaty of Elba." I don't think anybody used these these terms in a place where I thought someone might think it appropriate, which really confused me.<br />
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And "pokkelijder" means something along the lines of "pox sufferer" in Dutch, which in the greater scheme of <a href="http://everything2.com/title/Dutch+Profanity%253A+Categories+and+Usage">Dutch profanity</a> is apparently a terrible insult. "Lufka Humma" is the Natchez princess immortalized in the <i>Grandissimes </i>by Louisiana writer <a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/cablecreole/bio.html">George Washington Cable</a>.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://elairelibre.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/emilianozapata.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://elairelibre.files.wordpress.com/2010/06/emilianozapata.jpg" width="137" /></a></div>Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-16329296801281159992011-02-07T10:47:00.000-08:002011-02-07T10:47:24.187-08:00Haiti as a Metaphor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/time/caribbean/haiti.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="251" src="http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/images/time/caribbean/haiti.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Today we will explore why Haiti serves as a good metaphor for all of the themes that we have explored in this course up until this point.Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3451400328161718211.post-59762453762542851162011-02-02T10:13:00.000-08:002011-02-02T10:13:30.075-08:00The Painful Arrival of Political ModernitySo far in this class, we have explored many different ways in which the world became more "modern" after 1500, particularly with regard to economics, technology, and ideas. Today we are going to look at some of the earthshaking political changes that took place beginning at the end of the eighteenth century and how they redefined the relationship between governments and the governed.<br />
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We've already spent enough time considering North America, and you've had plenty of time in your 18+ years to learn about the American Revolution. Instead, today we will cast our gaze toward the French Revolution and its enormous global ramifications.<br />
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This revolution undermined absolutist monarchies, but in the end did not necessarily replace them with governments that fostered the revolutionary ideals of liberty, fraternity, and equality.<br />
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Some of the issues we will confront:<br />
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What the French Revolution meant to the rest of the western world, and why it was so troubling for those in charge.<br />
The conditions that allowed a man like Napoleon Bonaparte to emerge as Emperor of France<br />
The ways in which Bonaparte did and did not carry on the ideals of the Revolution.<br />
Why the Age of Napoleon was a little like throwing a rock into a pond in terms of global change.<br />
How Enlightenment-era ideas could put into motion a series of events resulting in less-than-enlightened outcomes.<br />
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A few terms that we'll confront today (some are also in your book): Jacobin, Grande Armée, Decemberists, Muhammad Ali Pasha, Leo Tolstoy, "Patriotic War of 1812," Muhammad Ali Pasha, Mamluks.<br />
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Culture and images:<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">Muhammad Ali Pasha</div><br />
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In addition to Tolstoy, which I'll talk about in the lecture, the Napoleonic Era inspired some of the West's most iconic music and visual art. Familiar to you should be Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture:<br />
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Or this great Boccherini piece (used in Master and Commander) composed on the eve of Napoleon's invasion of Spain. Boccherini had fled Napoleon's France for Spain. <br />
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And, of course, Goya's 3rd of May<br />
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For Chapter 15, you should be able to explain the differences in the way the age of revolution played out in these following places:<br />
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Spanish South America<br />
Brazil<br />
Haiti (San Domingue)<br />
British North America (the USA)<br />
The Ottoman Empire<br />
France<br />
Russia<br />
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How did the elimination of the international slave trade affect Africa?<br />
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How did Opium transform China's relationship with the West, and in what way did this parallel India's experience? How was India's and China's relationship with the West differ?<br />
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You should know the basic series of events having to do with the French Revolution.<br />
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Why was Free Trade so good for Britain and not so wonderful for a lot of other places?<br />
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Some terms:<br />
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Estates General<br />
National Assembly<br />
The Terror<br />
Congress of Vienna<br />
Pedro I of Brazil<br />
Hidalgo and Morelos <br />
palm oil<br />
Luddites<br />
Decemberists<br />
Muhammad Ali<br />
Orientalism (and its rise and fall in India)Dr. Justin Nystromhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02764481104045091601noreply@blogger.com0