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Notes on video lecture:
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 9, 2016 (go to class or lectures)
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mercantilism, textiles, hinterlands, compulsory, 1900, Lesseps, 1830, Europeans, interdependence, migrants, envy, voluntary, primary, outposts, reluctant, Lipton, shifts, Gama, exportation, Suez, hub, cotton, tea, irrigation, India, agrarian, Ganges, centrality, Germany, surplus
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colonies, once marginal                  of the global system, now emerging into dynamos
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receiving                 
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de Tocqueville witnessed and                    watched
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these colonies began to be the          of Europe
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societies that could be created as freed trade societies that could export                  products back to Europe
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this is what Britain had and which made her the envy of European rivals
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this is what Britain had as a de facto good after their rule was decreased in           
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free trade, a new model for stitching the global world together
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free trade
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this was not                     
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it was an international division of labor that was                   
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Britain had created a system of free trade within India itself
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with a penetration of railroads into the                       
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communication technology breakthroughs
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important drivers and             
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1869 building of the Suez Canal
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French engineer Ferdinand de                called it a triumph of engineering science
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allowed European trade to take the short route to India
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Britain could increasingly import its              from India
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cotton production spread across the              plain
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       was produced and important more from India
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             tea advertised its tea more
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trade between England and India because of the          Canal became a bonanza and key in what became known as the Victorian boom
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prosperity of the late 19th century not released by these interconnected systems
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draining flood plains
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canals
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railroads
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allowed for the cheaper production of foodstuffs and other products for European                       
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Britain began not only importing from the colonies, but exporting                  to Asia
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redefined the global division of trade
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Britain became a        for this new system
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exporting its manufactured goods through British ports
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Britain in fact became more dependent on global trade
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Britain's Gross Domestic Product that relied on international trade
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         about 10%
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         about 25%
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there was a process of increasing                                between societies
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the inversion of traditional roles
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centuries earlier Vasco da          had sailed to India in search of spices and high valued goods and all he had to offer were trinkets
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now Europeans had manufactured goods to offer in return for                product imports
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growing imbalances behind this free trade
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Britain was more and more dependent on imports from the rest of the world
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faced increasing competition from other international manufacturing producers, particularly
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United States
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having gotten rid of                         , they had less means to protect British industrialists in their access to market shares around the world
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Britain began to accumulate trade deficits
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the amount that they could export lagged behind what they could export
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Britain became much more dependent on India itself
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it was India with which they had their best trade               
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this made Britain very                    to give up India
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they need India to continue to enjoy their                      in the global economic system

Spelling Corrections:

mercantalism ⇒ mercantilism
Columbus and the New World
1500-1700 Indian Ocean Trading system
Da Gama, Pepper and World History
Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
16th Century Colonialism Fueling European Violence
Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
16th and 17th Century Merchant Trading Companies
17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
18th China Resurgent as Qing Dynasty
18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Enlightenment or Empire
18th Century Land Grabbing
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Human Rights and the Meaning of Membership within Societies
Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
The Ottoman Empire's 19th Century Tanzimat Reform
The Early 19th Century Market Revolution
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
The Train, the Rifle, and the Industrial Revolution
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Its Ramifications
Darwin's Effect on 19th Century Ideas
Factors Which Led to the Solidifying of Nation States
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
1899-1911 The End of the Qing Dynasty
The 1910 Mexican Revolution
The Panic of 1907
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
20th Century Questioning of Reason
Late 19th Century Anxieties of Race
The First World War
The End of WWI and the Attempt at Global Peace
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Wilson-Lenin Moment
1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars
1918-1945 Rethinking Economies