1. 1750 – 1900 Overview (Periodization Question: Why 1750 –1900?)
AP World History
Why is this a global “break” in history? Why do we start here?
Begins 1750 Evolution of ideas from Enlightenment and Absolutism
Ends 1910 – Beginning of WWI Era, Shifts in technology
Would there be a better time period name?
1750 – 1900 Overview
(Periodization Question: Why 1750 –1900?)

2. Changes in Global Commerce, Communication and Technology
Patterns of World Trade
Who, where, what, how in 1750?
What will and won’t change by 1910?
Ex: English…Europe isn’t a dominant player….but is in a position of increasing dominance and beginning to dominate. They have access to new markets/silver/technological advances/ colonies.
China vs. England…why did England really boom?
Ken Pomeranz – “The great divergence”

3. Changes in Global Commerce, Communication and Technology
Modes of Transportation/ communication
Impact of railroad, steam, telegraph
Suez Canal, Panama Canal

4. Suez Canal
Suez canal opened in 1869

5. Changes in Global Commerce, Communication and Technology
Industrial Revolution
Origins of I.R. – where, what
and when
Rationale of capitalism –
Adam Smith
Impact of I.R. on time, family,
work, labor
Relationship of nations during I.R.
Intellectual responses to I.R. – Marxism, socialism
Goal: roots of I. R.
Talk about Marx and Adam Smith

6. Power loom
Fatcat
Milltown
Miner
Streetchildren

7. Demographic and Environmental Changes
Migration – Immigration
Why?
Where?
Use CD about migration.
Connection to students’ lives
The largest migration of this time was between China and SE Asia Asian and S. America
From 1800’s.
Indentured labor issues! Diaspor communities in SE Asia. Population issues: China is looking for places/alternative…land issues

8. Demographic and Environmental Changes
End of Atlantic Slave Trade
New Birthrate Patterns
Disease prevention
and eradication
Food Supply

9. Changes in Social and Gender Structure
Industrial Revolution
Commercial developments
Tension between work patterns and ideas about gender
Emancipation of Serfs
and Slaves

10. Changes in Social and Gender Structure
Women’s emancipation movements

11. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Latin American Independence Movements
Why?
Important to see sequencing…Latin America gets independence long before African countries. Why were they so early?
Simon Bolivar

12. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Why Revolution now?
Where?
United States (1776)
France (1789)
Haiti (1803)

13. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Haitian Revolution
Toussaint L’Ouverture
Video from “Bridging World History” Series…it streams online! Haitian Revolution
How are revolutions connected and compared in history….common themes and symbology. Art connection!
Note: Jefferson feared that American slaves would do the same…he boycotted trade of sugar with Haiti….destroyed haiti’s economy

14. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Mexican Revolution

15. New Political Ideas Rise of Nationalism
Growth of Nation-states/ empires
Grimms fairy tales : find common heritage….use stories of common man. They are an example of how nationalism works. Ideas of building a nation-state. Grimms brothers looked around and helped build the culture of nationalism.

16. New Political Ideas Movements of Political Reform Jacobins in France
Taiping Rebellion in China
Taiping Rebellion (1860’s) more people died in this than in WWI and WWII combined. Started by a Chinese Christian and starts movement of peaseant. They congregated and began committing suicide instead of being captured by chinese gov’t.

17. New Political Ideas Rise of Democracy and its limitations Reform Women
Racism
Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
Social darwinism

18. Rise of Western Dominance
Patterns of Expansion
Imperialism and Colonialism
African continent, much of Asia, and Oceania
Ethiopia and Siam
Hawaii and New Zealand
Imperialism and resistance
Ethiopia and Siam – why were they the exceptions? Ethiopia was a Christian kingdom. The king was supported militarily from Euriopeans. He had army and weapons. It was considered someways “off limits”. They were able to resist.
Siam (Thailand) had “defensive modernization” . It managed to escape imperialism because it seemed “modern” and western . Ex: king and I. They traded. Western educ. Systems. They looked “western”.
Lesson: ½ class siam/1/2 class Ethiopia….explain how they were able to stay free and not be colonized.
Hawaii and New Zealand: std issues/ genocide issues/

19. Rise of Western Dominance
Scramble for Africa

20. Rise of Western Dominance
Economic, Political, Social, Cultural, & Artistic

21. Rise of Western Dominance
Cultural and Political Reactions to western dominance (reform, resistance, rebellion, racism, nationalism)
Japan– Commodore Perry and Meiji Restoration
Russia– Reforms and Rebellions
Siam and Ethiopia-- defensive modernization
China--Boxer Rebellion
Islamic and Chinese responses compared
Impact of Changing European Ideologies on Colonial Administrations

22. Rise of Western Dominance
Japan– Commodore Perry and Meiji Restoration

23. Rise of Western Dominance
China—Boxer Rebellion

24. Diverse Interpretations
Modernization theory debates
Cause of serf and slave emancipation?
Nature of women’s roles at the time in industrial areas? In colonial societies? Elite versus lower class?
“should we modernize them?’ and they’ll become so much like us?
Students need to know: modernization isn’t a “fix-all”. This idea can’t be applied everywhere! Values and Ideas and diversity are factors.
Cause of Serf and Slave emancipation – Do people just become more humane? Abolitionist movement has big impact? Why? More at root than this…industrialization replaces them in places. They aren’t needed as much.
Women’s roles change: it isn’t the country…it’s the class structure. More diviision in womens roles in more modern societies.

25. Comparisons
Industrial revolution in western Europe and Japan (causes and early phases)
Revolutions (American, French, Haitian, Mexican, and Chinese)
Reaction to foreign domination in Ottomans empire, China, India and Japan.
VERY IMPORTANT! They need to know these.

26. Comparisons Nationalism
Forms of intervention in 19th century Latin America and Africa
Roles and conditions of upper/ middle versus working/ peasant class women in western Europe
More comparison.
Once again: class issues and women…not location issues

27. European women 19th century
Queen Victoria’s
family
British family
in India
Russian peasant family

28. Conclusions
What are the global processes that are at play? Which have intensified? Diminished?
Predict how the events of the 19th century are a natural culmination of earlier developments.
Speculate what historical events in the 19th century would have most surprised historians of earlier eras.
Nationalism/trade/revolutions… are happening everywhere…but different contexts around the world with different factors. Comparisons