HIST 1F95 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Chuck Palahniuk, George Santayana, Social Darwinism
7 Sep 2017
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There are only patterns, patterns on top of patterns If you watch close, history does nothing but repeat itself. -chuck palahniuk. The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. - l. p. hartley. Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness when experience is not retained as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - george santayana. 80-100 million peacetime casualties of government repression and victimization i. e. communism, famines. How do we figure it out? (using primary resources) Holocaust deniers, confederate statues in the american south, racism against natives and slaves. Definition: an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority Army and navy are needed to keep establish control, maintain it, and defend colonies against other superpowers. Skilled statesmen to negotiate - berlin conference, 1884 - scramble for. Bureaucrats to work with local leaders and establish government.
