GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Class Conflict, Unfree Labour, Friedrich Engels

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: Candace Sobers

Document Summary

Consent of the governed, republics, equality (?) Outline: introduction: the long 19th century, power, work, life, globalization in action: the empire of cotton , conclusion: the march of progress . The history of doing history (subjects, methods, perspective, etc) Photo: crystal palace, london, 1851- first buildings made all out of glass. Why britain: intra-european competition, state-merchant alliances, centre of global exchange network (asia, africa, americas) Writing before the main period of industrialization. Writing after about a century of industrialization. Plantation slavery is the basis for the entire southern economy. By 1860, cotton = 60% of us exports worth m/a. As us expands tensions between slave and free states civil war (1861-1865) Confederacy tries cotton diplomacy to force europe to recognize it. Raw materials from asia, india, africa imperialism. Profits re invested globally banks, finance capital. Measure of progress increased pressure to industrialize.