GEOG 121 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Qianlong Emperor, Recreational Drug Use, Industrial Revolution
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Opium wars and the decline of the qing dynasty (1644-1911) How should we interpret mill"s liberalism- ideal of liberalism at large that was being expressed. The idea that every individual has rights that must be be respected by the government. Rights to to engage in certain economic activity. Mill was fine with people in india who still needed to be led by developed countries (colonialism) Universalism, ideas (free trade policies) were good but they weren"t implemented. Practice capitalist ideas-use britain as model (1st president of india) Great reversal- used by historians to talk about major power in europe and asia. Major powers in asia start to decline during the industrial revolution in britain. Consequences->linguistic diversity hard to unite territories which led to eternal tension ->due to different customs and economies. Problems undermined the last empire (failed to manage all regional groups together) Global trade-china able to trade materials like silver and develop wealth (global economic power)
