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Modernity and the Road to War What is Modernity ? Conflicts associated between traditional values and new ideas
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Agonized questions: The family Gender relationships Empire Religion Consequences of technology and progress Anti-semitism Militant nationalism
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Accelerated pace of life… Private life Population pressure Reforming marriage Politics of sexual identity
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New Sciences of the Modern Self: Psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939) Challenging accepted beliefs of unified, rational man The ID -- Libido, desires, instinctive Drives The EGO – Mediating force, in touch with reality The SUPER EGO – Force of conscience & social norms
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Revolutions in Science & … Albert Einstein (1879 – 1955) Big Bang Theory of the origins of the universe Marie Curie (1867 – 1934) The discovery of radioactivity Nobel Prizes for mother and daughter
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Modern Art: Henri Matisse – Fauvism Pablo Picasso – Cubism Georges Braque – Collage Art Nouveau – Arts and Crafts Mvmts. Musical Iconoclasm
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Growing Tensions in Mass Politics Labor’s Expanding Power – Trade Unions The Battle for Suffrage -- Emily Pankhurst Growing resistance to imperialism Rising Anti-Semitism – Dreyfus Affair
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Roads to War Germany’s Imperial Demands Crisis in the Balkans Sarajevo: the War erupts
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Competing explanations of the origins of World War I The Mood of 1914: intense nationalism “victimhood” appealing to immediate feelings of patriotism and self-preservation
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Competing explanations… The Short War Illusion –..A quick, cleansing thunderstom
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Competing explanations… The Primacy of domestic politics Power elites vs. rising labor
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Competing explanations… Germany opts for war: –Now or never –The Fisher controversy
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