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Unit IV

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Liberalism in Europe

Unit IV 1750-1914

1. Questions of periodization

           

            A. Continuities and breaks

           

             B. Causes of changes from the previous period and within this period


2. Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology

 

A. Industrial Revolution

   

   i. Origins of Industrial Revolution

  

   ii.New machines of Industrial Revolution

  

  iii.

The effect of the Industrial Revolution on different societies

  iv. The effect of the Industrial Revolution on Imperialism

   

 

B. Changes in patterns of world trade

3. Demographic and environmental changes

           A. 19th century Migrations

           B. end of the Atlantic slave trade

           C. new birthrate patterns after Industrial Revolution 

           D. food supply

           E.medicine

4. Changes in social and gender structure

A.      Industrial Revolution's effect on family structure and life

B.       Commercial and demographic developments in the 19th century

C.       Emancipation of serfs/slaves

D.      Tension between work patterns and ideas about gender in Industrial Revolution

E.       New forms of labor systems

5. Political revolutions and independence movements

A.     American Revolution

i.         Causes

ii.        Impact

B.       Latin American independence movements (Simon Bolivar)

C.       Mexican Revolution

i.         Causes

ii. Results

D.      French Revolution

i.            Causes

ii. Results

iii.         Convention to Napoleon

iv.         Napoleon

v.          Congress of Vienna

 

E.      Haiti Revolution (Toussaint-Louverture)

F.       Chinese Revolution


G. Rise of nationalism

i.      nation-states

ii.     movements of political reform

 

iii.   Compare nationalism in the following groups:

 

                         a.     China and Japan

 

                         b.     Egypt and Italy

 

                         c.    Pan- Africanism

 

                         d.   The Indian Congress Movement

 

6. Political movements

 

            A. Rise of democracy and its limitations

 

     i. Reform

                                

    ii. Women

 

                    iii.  

racism

 

B.       Conservatism in Europe

C.       Liberalism in Europe

 

D. Socialism (Karl Marx)

 

E.       Zionism

7.  Rise of Western dominance

A.      Economic factors

B.       Military factors

C.       Political factors

i.      Unification of Germany (Otto von Bismarck)

ii.     Italian Unification

D.      Social factors

E.       Cultural and artistic factors

F.       Patterns of expansion

i.         Imperialism

a.        Causes of New Imperialism

b.       White Man’s Burden

c.        Social Darwinism

d.       Opium Wars

e.        Spheres of Influence

f.         U.S. Open Door Policy

g.       Opening of Japan- Meiji Restoration

ii.        Colonialism

a.       Direct vs. Indirect Control

                      b.    Berlin Conference

 iii.  Neocolonialism

G.       Different cultural and political reactions

i.         Dissent

ii.        Reform

a.  Emancipation of Serfs

b. Self-Strengthening Movement

iii.      Resistance

iv.      Rebellion

a.  Sepoy Rebellion

b. Taiping Rebellion

c.  Boxer Rebellion

v.        Racism

vi.       Impact of changing European ideologies on colonial administrations

H.      Crimean War

8. East Asia

 

A.  Sino-Japanese War (Fall of the Qing)

 

B.     Russo-Japanese War

 

C. Boxer Rebellion

 

9. Middle East

 

A. Decline of the Ottoman Empire

 

    i. weakening of Janissaries

 

     ii. Effect of Religious conservativism on Ottoman Empire

 

     iii. Economic weakening of Ottoman Empire

 

          B. Rise of Zionism

10. Patterns of cultural and artistic interactions among societies in different parts of the world

A.      African and Asian influences on European art

B.       Cultural policies of Meiji Japan

 

 

11.  Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in western Europe and Japan.

 

12. Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions

 

 

13. Compare reaction to foreign interference in the:

 

A.     Ottoman Empire reaction to foreign interference

 

B.     China's reaction to foreign interference

 

C.     India's reaction to foreign interference

 

D.     Japan's reaction to foreign interference

 

14.  Explain forms of Western intervention in:

 

     A.     Latin America

 

         i. Monroe Doctrine

 

ii.

Spanish-American War

 

        iii. Panama Canal

B.   Africa- Congo Free State- King Leopold

   C.      Southeast Asia

 

15. Compare the roles and conditions of elite women in Latin America with those in western Europe before 1850.  

 

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