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Class notes HISTORY 262 (HIST262)
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- HISTORY 262 (HIST262)
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- University Of Tennessee - Knoxville
Reordering the world
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Reordering the world- 1750-1850
- 1798: Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt
- The Influence of the French Revolution
- The idea of freedom remade the world order
- Destroyed colonial domains
- This led to the creation of the nation-state
- Freedom was not universal
- Economic changes underlying political and social transformations
The new language of freedom
- A relaxation of mercantilist restrictions and more just practices
- Political reformers
- Popular sovereignty
- Idea of a nation– people who share a common language, culture, and history
- Rise of the nation-state
- Began to emphasize nationalism and democracy
- Economic reformers
- Free trade with no tariffs, quotas, or fees
- Free markets, unregulated markets
- Free labor: using paid rather than slave labor
- Economic freedoms would yield a just and more efficient society
- Post-1750: revolution in communications
- Spread of ideas and practices
- New printing technology
- Publishing became a more complex business– gendered division of labor in
publishing houses.
- Declining costs led to greater accessibility
- The explosion of global news
Political reordering
- Imperial competition for market control
- Expansion of world markets
- 2nd half of 18th century: the spread of revolutionary ideas across the Atlantic world
- Right to participate in government
- North American and French revolutions overthrew monarchs and launched republics.
- Encouraged similar developments in the Caribbean and Central and South
America
The North American War of Independence
- Britain’s North American colonies proved highly prosperous by the mid-18th century.
- Bustling port cities
- Colonial affairs were dominated by a class of merchants and plantation owners
- Land— a constant course of dispute
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