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The Making of the Modern World Professor Frederick CHEUNG Department of History The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Introduction: the Medieval Origin of the Modern World Magna Carta, 1215; the Emergence of the English Parliament, and the English Constitutional Monarchy; The French Absolute Monarchy
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II. (A) Thesis --- Age of Faith/Medieval Origin, (B) Antithesis – Renaissance/Reformation/ Discovery of the New World/ Scientific Revolution/ Age of Reason/Enlightenment, and
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II. (C) Synthesis -- the French Revolution and 19th Century Europe Hegel’s Theory on Historical Periods: thesis, Antithesis, and Synthesis
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III. ( A) New Imperialism (“God, Gold, and Glory”), and (B) New “Balance of Power” in the 19th Century
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III. The Theory on the New Imperialism in the 19th Century: God (Missionaries), Gold (Merchants), and Glory (Soldiers for National Glory); + Human Instincts New Theory of “Balance of Power” and the Changing of a New Center of Power in 19th Century Europe
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IV. Conclusion: Apparently the End of the Old, yet the Emergence of a New Europe (“Common Market” and then “Political Unification”)
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Holborn’s Observation of the Zollverein, 1834 (Economic Confederation) for the Political Unification of Germany, 1871; Prediction of the Common Market for the “United States of Western Europe”
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