HIS 1110 Lecture 99: POL1110 Lecture Notes Entire Class
27 Nov 2017
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Throughout 1900-1945, the centre of power shifts away from europe, towards us, russia, japan etc. Until then, the great powers of the world are in europe (g-b, france, germany, and russia). 1900, us in great position to become a world power; not quite there yet. 1900, japs starting to rise up, does not have same resources as us. 1900, china has tremendous potential in materials/pop. , wont realize greatness till later on. In 1900, the world is a european one. The (cid:373)ost i(cid:373)po(cid:396)ta(cid:374)t/po(cid:449)e(cid:396)ful e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)e i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1004)(cid:1004), (cid:862)the sun never sets on the british empire(cid:863) At its peak, b-e covers 22% of the world land mass. 400 million people lived within empire, of world pop. Canada, scotland, australia, us, people where white people go to settle. 16th-18th century, colonies that are imagined by g-b as (cid:862)little b(cid:396)itai(cid:374)(cid:863) People, institutions, models of govt. , culture, all exported from g-b. India is the crown jewel of the british colony.
