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The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 17, 2014 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
Bengal, social, juggernaut, Pombal, recast, stock, universal, East, Adam, monopoly, languages, family, obligation, commensurate, corruptions, warfare, societies, American, escalating, Burke, Clive, reason, institutions, empires, India
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science of the 18th century
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new laws of
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economics
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             sciences
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it occurred to people that these sciences could be used to make                    more efficient than they had been
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instead of these pellmell, piled- upon, amalgamations of ad hoc rules and practices that                      empires had invented and arrived at over the centuries
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by the time they were in competition with each other
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the empires were facing                      costs with not always                          rising returns
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new laws of economics and social sciences
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one realized that science could be used to change               
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science then comes full circle
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it's the product of empire, but also could be used to             , to reform empire
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mercantilism reformed
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a system which created                         , rules and practices which sought to ensure that more wealth flowed into European cities than flowed out
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the critical instrument that made sure this practice continued was the mercantile              and its sequel, the joint-           company
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with escalating               , mercantilist empires had to find revenues to fund these efforts
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the          India Company
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the icon of this age of mercantilism
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a company that enjoyed, by definition,                  rights
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the idea of monopoly rights was the most important target of          Smith when he wrote the Wealth of Nations (1776)
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monopoly rights meant for large returns from abroad, e.g. in           , and flows of wealth back to Europe, but it was threatening to corrupt Europe at home
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these monopoly practices began to be seen in conflict with the Age of Reason
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Edmund           
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a voice in these debates
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made a career out of pointing out the                        and vices who were using public stations to benefit themselves privately
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supported the                  Revolutionaries because he was against monopolies
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went after Warren Hastings
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the chief executive officer of the East India Company
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a man of             , science, a man of this age
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brought by            into the East India Company as a young man
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rose up to succeed Clive
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became the first governor general in             
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consolidated Clive's conquests in Bengal
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imagined himself the product of science, new scientific rules, made new laws, learned                   
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was going to apply these new social sciences
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"we as men of science have an                      to apply these laws"
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compared natural laws and natural rights
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already forecasting that by enlightening Indians, British dominance would eventually fade
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"the Enlightenment can serve the Empire"
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Edward Burke vs. Warren Hastings
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East India Company was a Company-State which
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had armies
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collected taxes
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was impeached and led to the "Trial of Warren Hastings"
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gained wealth by using a state license
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seen at home as corrupting
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the way empire was being practiced through this companies was destroying the ethical fabric of society
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Burke ruled about company rule
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the Enlightenment could spread empire, and empire could spread the                    promise of the Enlightenment
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not just a British or French believe
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Portugal
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Marquis de             

People:

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
Irish statesman who served in the British House of Commons remembered for his support of the American Revolutionaries and opposition to French Revolution
  • his opposition to the French Revolution led him to become the leading figure within conservative faction of the Whig party
  • attempted to impeach Warren Hastings of the East India Company for personal corruption
  • praised by both conservatives and liberals of the 19th century, today he is viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism
  • "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
Warren Hastings (1732-1818)
The first Governor-General of Bengal, from 1772 to 1785, was accused of corruption and impeached in 1787, but after a long trial he was acquitted in 1795
  • the letters and journals of Jane Austen and her family, who knew Hastings, show that they followed the trial closely
Marquis de Pombal (1699-1782)
18th-century Portuguese statesman and de facto head of government, notable for his swift and competent leadership in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, he implemented sweeping economic policies in Portugal to regulate commercial activity and standardize quality throughout the country
  • was instrumental in weakening the grip of the Inquisition
  • introduced many fundamental administrative, educational, economic, and ecclesiastical reforms justified in the name of the Enlightenment and instrumental in advancing secularization

Spelling Corrections:

almalgamations ⇒ amalgamations
mercantalism ⇒ mercantilism
forcasting ⇒ forecasting

Ideas and Concepts:

The burning political question of the 18th century, via tonight's History Since 1300 class: "How can we use these new economic and social sciences to change the way in which we practice state building, instead of continuing to live under these pell-mell, piled-upon, amalgamations of rules and practices invented by and arrived at ad hoc throughout the centuries by these juggernaut and now increasingly financially and ethically bankrupt empires?"
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