1750–1914 Completed Version
1. Questions of periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period and within this period:  Industrial Revolution and Colonialism expansion

2. Industrial Revolution (transformative effects on and differential timing in different societies; mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments; commonalities)
 
When did the Industrial Revolution Begin?
 
What events caused changes in global commerce, communications, and technology?
 
What events caused changes in patterns of world trade, including effect of demographic increase on consumerism and migration Changes in social and gender structure, including emancipation of slaves or serfs and tension between work patterns and ideas about gender -- e.g. Women’s emancipation movements
Great Britain Opium Wars, Boxer Rebellion colonization of Australia
Irish Potato Famine
 
United States of America Admiral Perry  emancipation
France colonization of Indochina and North Africa  
Japan Meiji Restoration  
Germany  1870 Franco-Prussian War and creation of German empire  
Russia   Russification led to mass migration to U.S. and other parts of the Americas  emancipation
When De-Industrialization Began Changes in global commerce, communications, and technology
Changes in patterns of world trade
Changes in social and gender structure
India increase in Indian indentured labor in East and South Africa  
Egypt Muhammad Ali and Suez Canal

3.
Demographic and environmental changes Where, When, Why?
migrations  
end of the Atlantic slave trade  
new birthrate patterns  
food supply  

4.  Changes and continuities  in social and gender structure (use charts above to summarize):
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

5. Political revolutions and independence movements; new political ideas
 
Political revolutions and independence movements Leaders Causes Results (who benefitted?) Effects on Other Revolutions
U.S.A.
 
     
France
 
     
Haiti
 
     
Latin American independence movements        
Mexican Revolution of 1910
 
     
Chinese Revolution of 1911
 
     

 
 
 
 
Rise of Western dominance Examples of Western Dominance, economic, political, social, cultural and artistic, patterns of expansion; imperialism and colonialism Examples of different cultural and political reactions (reform; resistance; rebellion; racism; nationalism)/Marxism and Social Darwinism
South Asia    
Southeast Asia    
East Asia    
Sub-Saharan Africa    
North and East Africa    
Middle East    
Russia    
Japan    
Latin America
 
 

7. Diverse interpretations
What are the debates over the utility of modernization theory as a framework for interpreting events in this period and the next?
What are the debates about the causes of serf and slave emancipation in this period, and how do these debates fit into broader comparisons of labor systems?

What are the debates over the nature of women’s roles in this period, and how do these debates apply to industrialized areas, and how do they apply in colonial societies?

Students Should be Prepared to Compare the Following:
 
the roles of women in western Europe conditions of women in western Europe
upper/middle classes   
peasantry/working class
 

 

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