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 |
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| 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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