HIST 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Anthropocene, Cultural Imperialism, Yasser Arafat
Class note 14
Social Darwinism
The application of ideas about evolution and "survival of the fittest" to human
societies - particularly as a justification for their imperialist expansion.
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conservatives in the early twentieth century were outraged by critical and
"scientific" approaches to the Bible, by Darwinism. More in favor for
fundamentalism
consumerism
Consumerism is an economic theory which states that a progressively greater
level of consumption is beneficial to the consumers.
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Widespread prosperity eluded some sections of society
First time purchase on an unprecedented amount of consumer goods,
manufactured by new techniques of mass production
Bretton Wood System
post WW2, govt officials forged a set of agreements and institutions (IMF). It
negotiated the rules for commercial and financial dealings among the major
capitalist countries, while promoting relatively free trade...
Post-Cold War Globalization
US share of overall world production from 50% in 1945 to 20%. The world resent
American cultural and economic dominance
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