1. 1750 – 1914 Overview (Why 1750 –1914?)

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 1914?

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

6. Power loom
Fatcat
Milltown
Miner
Streetchildren

7. Demographic and Environmental Changes
Migration – Immigration
Why?
Where?

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?
Simon Bolivar

12. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Why Revolution now?
Where?
United States (1776)
France (1789)
Haiti (1803)
Mexico (1910)
China (1911)

13. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Haitian Revolution
Toussaint L’Ouverture

14. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Mexican Revolution

15. Political Revolutions and Independence Movements
Chinese Revolution
Dr. Sun Yat Sen
Manchus

16. New Political Ideas Rise of Nationalism
Growth of Nation-states/ empires

17. New Political Ideas Movements of Political Reform Jacobins in France
Taiping Rebellion in China

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

19. Rise of Western Dominance
Patterns of Expansion
Imperialism and Colonialism
African continent, much of Asia, and Oceania
Ethiopia and Siam
Hawaii and New Zealand

20. Rise of Western Dominance
Scramble for Africa

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

22. 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

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

24. Rise of Western Dominance
China—Boxer Rebellion

25. 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?

26. 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.

27. Ottomans- 19th century
Young Turk Revolutionaries
The Last Sultans

28. 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

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

30. 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.