HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Second Opium War, Meiji Restoration, Italian Unification
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The global 1860: moving to see the european international system is loosing that term european moving into a. Lecture 14 broader international system, war by war a bit of extortion: prussia in the 1860 is going to fight a serious of wars that will develop germany. There is also at the same time a war of italian unification. So war redeveloping and shaping europe and its powers: united states are fighting a civil war but more like a war between two states, war for a war the future of the states. Us will be stronger afterwards: the ending of slavery after the war does not make life easy, the struggle for people who have been slaves will still be there. The states will remain stronger from an international and global and as a great power, and soon a super, and hyper power: the civil war is critical in understanding the growth of american power.
