The Modern World:
Part One: Global History 1760-1910
Professor Philip
Zelikow, University of Virginia
FREE MOOC via Coursera.org
through http://www.class-central.com
Commercial
and Military Revolutions (1760-1800)
Week 1: video 1: The Study of
History
·
What happened?
·
Why things happened the way they did?
o Circumstances
o Choices
made by man
§ How
§ Why
§ What
could have happened
§ Situation>Problem>Solutions>Action
& new situation
W1:V2:
The Great Divide [between tradition and modern world]
·
Traditional world (not change from generation to
generation)
·
Modern world (massive changes)
o Population
§ 1500-1750
290million in 250 years (187 million more in 50 years)
§ 1800-1850
284 million
§ Late
1700s billions
o Income
§ Malthusian
trap: finite amount of stuff for 2000 years
§ 1800
another great divide with the Industrial Revolution
·
Malthusian trap broke
o Global
Europe: commerce, ideas, and military intrusions
o Political
Revolutions
§ Liberal,
democratic, “national”
§ Change
from nobility & church [toward the people wanting more say]
o Culture
§ Beliefs
§ Limits/possibilities
human innovations, status, prosperity
W1:V3:
The Traditional and the Modern
W!:V4:
The Great Divide-Why?
W1:V5:
The World of 1760
W1:V6: The Commercial Revolution
W1:V7:
The Military Revolution
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