HIST-158 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cotton Gin, French Revolution, Industrial Revolution
6 Dec 2016
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The fall of silver capitalism and of china. Insurgence in the bajio took down silver capitalism, and with it, the chinese political hegemony. These two concurrences set the course toward the world that you and i know. They did not cause (nobody planned anything), but all of those conflicts opened the way for the british industrial revolution. Britain begins to matter more in the world. Tutino insists that the us didn"t win it"s war for independence but instead britain woke up one day and decided to not fight because it wasn"t worth it. Instead, the british went to india to assert military and economic power in south asia. What britain wanted in india was cotton cloth african kings and merchants demand indian cloth (this is the majority of what they sell into the atlantic) and cloth is the world of indian merchant producers.
