GEOG 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Caravel, Deindustrialization, Factory System
27 Oct 2017
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GEOG100 Lecture 3 Notes 1
Places an regions in global context
• The world is an evolving political economic system, developing through successive stages of
geographic integration.
• This has effected places and regions in different ways, and shaped the way in which they are
both interdependent and different.
• Such changes have shaped power relations between people and places.
Globalization
• Globalization is the process whereby …people in various parts of the world, which hitherto may
have been largely unaffected by what happened elsewhere, now find themselves drawn into the
same social spaces and effectively governed by the same historical time (John Allen).
• But places (still) matter.
Capitalism
• Under capitalism, the means of production are owned by a minority of individuals, who have
the legal right to use this property for private gain.
• Capitalism relies on the market system, which determines distribution, allocation, resources,
and establishes income, wages, rents and profits.
The pre-capitalist world: The Silk Road
Merchant capitalism:
• Wealth based on trade
• Geographic differences: supply and demand
• Expansionary
Caravel: The lateen sail
Language, trade and geography
• Calico: Indian SW city of Calicut
• Cashmere: from Kashmir
• Muslin: Mosul in Iraq
• Damask: Damascus, Syria
• Cotton: qutun, Arabic name
Zheng He
Slavery and the plantation system: Africa
• Plantation system: labour intensive
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Document Summary
Merchant capitalism: wealth based on trade, geographic differences: supply and demand, expansionary. Language, trade and geography: calico: indian sw city of calicut, cashmere: from kashmir, muslin: mosul in iraq, damask: damascus, syria, cotton: qutun, arabic name. Slavery and the plantation system: africa: plantation system: labour intensive. Commodity networks: 18th century trans-atlantic (cid:862)triangular(cid:863) trade, ra(cid:449) materials manufactured goods la(cid:448)es ra(cid:449) materials. New connections (cid:862) by the late seventeenth century, the new england merchant, the barbadian planter, the. English manufacturer, the english slave trader and the african slave traders (and merchants) were joined in an intricate web of interdependent economic activity. (cid:863) barbara solow. Industrial capitalism: social division of labour: labour/capital, wealth derived from production, not trade, mineral (carbon-based) energy. Spatial/technological innovation: the spinning jenny, mid 1700s: 1 person took 50,000 hours to hand spin 100 pounds of cotton, 1975: 1 person took 300 hours to spin 100 pounds of cotton, factory system.
