HIS244H1 Lecture : Lecture 1-January 10.docx
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Class is going to cover from the peace of westphalia to the defeat of napoleon 1815: the westphalian state system the peace of westphalia, which ended the thirty years war in. 1648, is said to have represented a major change in the evolution of the nation state. Power of the state invested in the monarch-what the king says goes i am the state . Sir isaac newton 1643-1727: the commercial, credit and consumer revolutions the period between 1648 and 1815 arguably saw more radical economic changes in europe than any other to date. Important financial innovations in the dutch republic and great britain, when combined with liberal commerce and (eventually) the industrial revolution, had a powerful transformative effect. Businesses trying to persuade what is bought: the end of the early modern why do historians say that the french revolution and the. How the world was organized in reference to a hierarchal static arrangement.
