GEOG 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Feudalism, Halford Mackinder, Industrial Revolution
6 May 2018
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GEOG 1000
October 25, 2017
The Making of European Nations
Nations and Nationalism
Nationalism
● Us versus Them - us the British/Scottish/Americans
● Aim at taking back control, defining who is in the nation and who is outside
Imperialism
● Achieved through military or political means
● Romans, Greeks, Christians (Crusades for the Holy Land)
● Extension of power through direct or indirect control of the economic and political life
of other territories
European Imperialism
● In the 15th century we saw Imperialism on a level never seen before
● Two phases
○ Mercantile (1400 - 1790) Renaissance and Enlightenment - modern and
scientific principals (old European imperialism)
■ European monarchs looking to extract resources
■ Europeans did not seek to colonize
■ Well established trade routes and empires that expand across the
world
■ Mercator map allowed much easier navigation
■ Led to improvements in ship building and weaponry.
○ Industrial (1790 - 1914) Origins in Industrial revolution - Core, Golden
Triangle, Periphery
■ The first move to steam as a source of power
■ Steam engines required coal
■ Most cotton coming into UK from the US even after independence,
main product that produced high profit for slave owners
■ 1850 - improvement in steam engines, second wave of Industrialism
spread to western Europe due to access to coal
■ Development of steel, railways centered on Western Europe to the
periphery of Europe
■ Combustion engines and introduction of electricity
■ Golden Triangle - Germany, France, UK
■ Excellent universities, technological innovation
■ Periphery of Europe - source of workers; Italian workers sent to the
Golden Triangle; important market, where you sell the commodities
you are producing; source of raw materials
■ 1900: Great Britain using India as a market for cheap produced goods;
Economic expansion across the world
Document Summary
Us versus them - us the british/scottish/americans. Aim at taking back control, defining who is in the nation and who is outside. Romans, greeks, christians (crusades for the holy land) Extension of power through direct or indirect control of the economic and political life of other territories. In the 15th century we saw imperialism on a level never seen before. Mercantile (1400 - 1790) renaissance and enlightenment - modern and scientific principals (old european imperialism) Well established trade routes and empires that expand across the world. Led to improvements in ship building and weaponry. Industrial (1790 - 1914) origins in industrial revolution - core, golden. The first move to steam as a source of power. Most cotton coming into uk from the us even after independence, main product that produced high profit for slave owners. 1850 - improvement in steam engines, second wave of industrialism spread to western europe due to access to coal.
