HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: French Revolution, Scientific Revolution, Industrial Revolution
14 Sep 2016
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The processes that underpinned the global transition to modernity: 1. the political revolutions of the 18th century that substituted popular sovereignty for traditional monarchical rule and established the idea of the nation as central to notions of popular sovereignty; Late 18th century revolutions: american revolution, french revolution, haiti revolution are sacred to the topic. Power being forced on the people, political nationalism are the ideas of the 18th century: the economic and technological changes wrought by the industrial revolution in manufacturing. The processes that has changed the economy of the west and then of the whole world: the intellectual environment caused by the scientific revolution of the 16th and 17th centuries and the european enlightenment of the 18th century. The enlightenment late 17th century- late 18th century. Elite men, who were called the philosophers, the thinkers who propounded challenge to create an order.
