HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lgbt Social Movements, Social Inequality, Fax
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Shifts in the international balance of power (examples: japan, russia, more recently. The rise of japan and russia as new economic and political powers . The decline, and eventual elimination of those western colonial empires, from around 1920 through to about 1960. The recent explosive economic growth over past recent decades in some parts of. Intensification of cross-cultural interactions (mechanisms producing this intensification) Product of colonization and decolonization, which resulted in large-scale migrations and relocations of people. Political and social transformations in the name of equality. Sweeping political and social change have been a hallmark in most countries in 20th century. Often done in the name of noble ideas purifying nation , In modern world, we exalt the notion of equality. French revolution, for eg. first to attack the assumption of social inequality, and proclaim the ideal of equality . Marxism represented a further attack on the social inequalities inherent in capitalism.
