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1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 1, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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genocide, identify, extricate, unconventional, constitution, Armenians, total, reprisals, dehumanized, fiscal, humanitarian, stagnant, massacres, irremediably, Duma, colonial, occupiers, 1917, occupying, French, people, asymmetry, humiliates, Trotha, revolutions, Pacific, Asia, Hereros, Petersburg, Stolypin
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late 19th century                  world
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colonial authorities found themselves as                    rather than liberators
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engaged in                              wars
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not what the military authorities had been trained to practice
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led to            wars in the colonies with three features
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1. armies become                    armies
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struggling to control territories, as well as              rising up against them
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2. to justify these practices, the colonial peoples were increasingly                       
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the increasingly became the other
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cast in a role as the other
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necessarily inferior
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                         hopeless
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deserving of the fate being meted out on them
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3. the sheer                    of power
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what General von              wielded in complete superiority over the Hereros was staggering
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the                had little to use to wage a confrontation
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paradox: once colonial armies were drawn into these conflicts, it was very hard to                    themselves
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dynasties were increasingly in trouble
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Russia
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a new cycle of                       
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an echo of the revolutions around the turn of the 19th century, e.g. the American and              revolutions
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culminated in Russia in         
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pre-WWI, 20th century
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other rivalries
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with Japan in the               
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with the British in central         
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increasingly with German in Europe
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Russo-Japanese War 1904-05
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Japan                      Russia
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Czarist regime was faced with
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rising              troubles
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growing domestic inequities
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demands for reforms
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calls to put constraints on the power of the Czar himself
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1905 St.                     , Bloody Sunday
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Czarist troops responded to calls for reform with repression
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the Czar did agree to some reforms
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         was created
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party system
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1906 new                         
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reforms issued in the wake of protests
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Pyotr                  (1862-1911)
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managed reforms
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but the reforms was too little, too late
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Turkey
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late 19th century had reformers
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the Young Turks
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wanted to transform the decrepit,                  Ottoman empire into a modern nation-state
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1908 new constitution
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provoked a round of tension and                   
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Armenian minorities began to demand new rights
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Christian                    were secessionists, and anti-Turkish
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Young Turks accused of allowing these upstart minorities to get too many freedoms
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atrocities
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1909 civilians accused of treason against the sultan were hanged
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Armenian                    were widespread
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pogroms with 30,000 people dead in some areas
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led to                  during WWI
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this specter of atrocity was picked up in European news
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evoked opinion against Ottoman Empire as world learns of genocide
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the first Holocaust
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a new                          crusade
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the first human rights movement
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photo journalist
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investigators
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tapped into peoples being able to                  with other peoples

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assymetry ⇒ asymmetry
genecide ⇒ genocide
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17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
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Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
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Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
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1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
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The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
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The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
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Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
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