HIST 1003 Lecture : West Civ 3 Notes
Document Summary
Cecil rhodes and south african diamond rush. The berlin conference, and the scramble for africa". Experimentation in music, art, architecture, science, technology. High and low culture: soccer, pub culture v. opera, modern art. Patrician" class cannot, or will not reform quickly enough. Failures of the free market and the rise of mass politics. Critiques of capitalism; socialism becomes a mass movement. Politics in the hands of the liberal elite. The second international between radicals and democratic socialists. The established powers, the rising powers, and the failing multinational empires. Late arriving industrialization, but huge growth after 1870. Largest overseas empire (empire on which the sun never sets) Most powerful industrial economy (but falling behind germany and the us) Socialism and anarchism threatening the third republic. Creation of bulgaria, romania out of ottoman empire, 1878. Desire for control over the black sea straits. Georg von schonerer, founder of the first anti-semitic party. Origins of the war, 1: the arms race.
