GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Commodification, Marshall Mcluhan, Spacetime
Document Summary
How did great britain come to be the dominant global power? o o o. Marx believes it to be the cheapness of it"s goods (he also agrees that the productivity itself was also a key thing to britain"s global power) Hobsbawm believed it to be a power of it"s military, where they also made use of their industrial goods to create military resources. Blaut believed it to be the accident of its location, where they journeyed to areas they did not exist and thus unlocked potential trade countries. Steam power (or steam engine) was used for railways and steamships the. Where space time compression : the world seems smaller because of the introduction in railway, as you are able to reach destinations quicker and faster. Commodification: more and more goods produced as commodities due to space time compression (these goods are not typically considered to be a commodity) o o.
