IDH 2931 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Russian Empire, Cultural Diversity
18 Nov 2017
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Things fall apart: austrian, ottoman, and russian empire collapsed circa ww1, german and japanese empires ended with ww2. India, pakistan, burma, indonesia, iraq, jordan, and israel won independence in the late. 1940s: african independence came between mid-1950w and mid-1970s. The global south: 1950-2000: developing nations contained 75 percent of world population, now considered developing nations, latin america, south america, africa, australia, india, saudi arabia. Experiments with freedom: common conditions confronted all efforts to establish political order, explosive population growth, overly high expectations for independence, cultural diversity, with little loyalty to a central state.
