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1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on April 4, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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towns, famine, extermination, Dutch, incorporation, disenchantment, London, concentration, societies, Europe, possibility, guerilla, plenty, pacification, wells, Victorian, gold, precarious, prisoners, WWI, ethical, Herero, Spain, disease, arable, civilians
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latter half of the 19th century
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a long Victorian boom
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represented a dynamic of a great production and circulation of             
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new ideas
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effervescence
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a feeling of                       
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population growth increasing
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intensified interdependence between societies
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the world had a center, located in             
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the British economy, and              in particular
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capitalist frontiers spread into hinterlands
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tribe-like people's displaced
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animals displaced, e.g. buffaloes, tigers, elephants
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in spite of the bounty produced by the                    boom, not all was so euphoric
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by 1914 there was an important distemper, a                             
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there were many anxieties about it before        brought it down
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regimes were much more fragile and                      than we realize
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anti-colonial struggles
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against core metropolitan societies radiating out of Europe
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fighting against forced and involuntary                           
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protests against the elites in countries to be able to be able tot take part in the bounty of globalization
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capitalization produced surpluses but it was unevenly distributed
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Cubans fighting           
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one of the last of first round of colonies fighting for their independence
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Cuban and Filipino efforts
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using new models of warfare
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anticipated what would happen later
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imperial armies poised again local                  movements
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over the 20th century, warfare evolved from being the classical story of organized armies to confrontation between less organized groups
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blurs the boundaries between combatants and                   
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implications for how we understand total war
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guerilla forces draw their sustenance from villages and           
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intentionally blur the line between civilian and combatant
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imperial armies are struggling against civilians
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they find themselves waging wars not against armies but entire                   
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often involves warfare of armies against civilians
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1898 Cuba
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first mention of                            camp
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attempt to fight guerilla warfare, isolating rural people from the insurgents who were waging unconventional warfare against imperial armies
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savage wars of peace, spread from 1890s onward
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African upheavals
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South Africa
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uprising on the part of the descendants of the            settlers, the Voortrekkers, against the British rulers
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Boer Republics
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The Orange Free State
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         had been discovered
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British called this a war of                         
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a kind of warfare people had never seen before
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fighting Boer guerillas: villagers, civilians
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much                controversy
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the war ended with a compromise, which later led to Apartheid
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Germany
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Namibia
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extermination practices deployed by armies
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the              people rose up against the German colonialists
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land-grabbing efforts on the part of the German government
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what we would now call ethnic cleansing or ethnic                           
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creating camps and allowing                to spread in such a way that it would destroy native populations
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the images where horrific
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             lands were cleared
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those who resisted had their            poisoned
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General von Trotha: "All the Herero must leave the land. If they refuse, then I will force them to do it with the big guns. Any Herero found within German borders, with or without a gun, will be shot. No                    will be taken. This is my decision for the Herero people."
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Kipling:
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"Take up the White Man's burden, the savage wars of peace. Fill full the mouth of              and bid the sickness cease. And when your goal is nearest the end for others sought, watch sloth and heathen folly bring all your hopes to nought."

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19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
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Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
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1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars
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