EDWARD'S LECTURE NOTES:
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C O U R S E
A History of the World since 1300
Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
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C O U R S E L E C T U R E Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents Notes taken on October 8, 2017 by Edward Tanguay |
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turn-of-the-century economic unease and swelling discontent about the nature of the system that was coming into being
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was increasingly uncertain if markets be relied upon to be self-regulating and self-contained
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the fear that economic difficulties could lead to economic difficulties
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John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
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what would happen to the economy if at the center of the system was weaker than we thought
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the world economy spent several centuries suspending itself to frontiers
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capitalism had grown in expansion in its ability to extend outwards
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the ability to go global was running into trouble
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Frederick Jackson Turner (1861-1932)
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the American frontier is closed
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the Herero people rising up against the German colonists
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shrinking of the world
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made the parts of it more visible to each other
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social classes began to see the disparities which separated them
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made the world more intervisible
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the right not to be property
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Olaudah Equiano had been fighting this
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certain social classes were winding up with a larger and larger share of wealth and property
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women were fighting to have the rights that the Enlightenment thinkers had claimed to be so universal
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feminism
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started to transcend nation-states
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become intervisible with each other
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
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"women, too, are reasonable creatures"
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deserved to practice the rights that were being subscribed to men
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to participate in the choice of who represented people politically
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Suffrage March Edinburgh, 1907 and 1909
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led by the WSPU (Women's Social and Political Union), one of the main suffrage organizations in Edinburgh
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suffragette
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was a disparaging word used to scorn women who wanted to be able to vote as men did
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soon it became a label of resistance
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fanned out from Britain to America and Japan
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some men were not particularly happy
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counter protests
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to roll back the demands of women who wanted to vote
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resorted to increasingly dramatic tactics
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1913 Epsom Derby
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Emily Davison hurls herself out in front of the king's horse
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trampled to death in front of shocked spectators
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1917-1918 Kimua Komako in New York
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feminist from Japan
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at end of First World War
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1904 International Council of Woman
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first truly global social movement
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shrewd in using the media to inform and persuade