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Notes on video lecture:
1918-1945 Rethinking Economies
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 15, 2022 (go to class or lectures)
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buy, colonial, market, nots, state, consumption, demand, wartime, liberal, mass, peace, 1932, 1945, financial, 1930s, consumers, production, textiles, collapse, poorest
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in World War I, on the battlefield, the resources of empires hemorrhages in the form of the human toll
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the peace of 1918/1918 didn't create a durable           
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the tension would persist until well into         
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1914-1945, a thirty-years war
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war was much more common in the world than peace
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brought the old empirical systems to a head and with a human toll that we have never seen and that we would never see again
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a crack in the economic system
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1929 was the                  of the financial, commercial and open integrated, interdependent system
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disintegrated the global system
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took only a few, short intense years to break this down
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production was separated from                       
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19th century was an experiment in this
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some produce primary stables (India--cotton), and others (Britain--                ) produces manufactured goods
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protectionist measures
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to protect own jobs
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the system starts to break down
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the capital that flows back and forth between the two was shattered by the                    crisis
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reached its depth in         
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what pulled the world out of this were the demands of the                economy
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people became disillusioned with the classic approach to global capitalism
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with 20-35% unemployment rates
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all economic systems relied on            intervention as an engine
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capitalistic
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communist
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the state was recognized as an agent for creating              for commodities
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you needed the state to step in and create demand
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the economies that did relatively better throughout the depression were the command economies
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not just where states put money in people's pockets, i.e. the                economies
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America
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Canada
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Australia
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some states took over                      itself
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never before have we seen the state play such an aggressive role
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all societies had become a          society
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had to integrate the have-         into society
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all mass production societies
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Fordism
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mass producer of the Model-T automobile
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his workers should be able to        an automobile
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they can be the                    of what they produce
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a conceptual breakthrough
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to recombine production and consumption
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there was pressure on states to solve social problems
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states could be involved in resolving the              failure
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to recombine production and consumption
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the paradox of modern capitalism is that while it created more integration, it also created more volitility
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put pressure on states to integrate societies vertically
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to bring the                levels of society into public life
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resolving these paradoxes was the challenge of the           
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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