POL S 348X Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Manifest Destiny, Expansionism, Industrial Revolution
19 Jan 2017
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Protestantism: religion and politics, catholism is the enemy. Cross-cutting cleavage: allegiance to protestantism shaped british identity in 16th-18th c, setting england, War: scots were historically known for war. Merger resulted in scots fighting under british empire: expansionism (manifest destiny) Territory and ports: from 1689- 1815, english, welsh and scots fought six wars against france, nation building based upon fear, relief, and pride, louis xiv. Empire: a british- wide (cid:862)call to arms(cid:863, british empire:1600-1800s. Monarchy: construct to build nation around royal families of territories, emergence of the monarchy as a nation builder. Nearly 140 years of george iii and victoria brought the various parts of. Wwi and wwii: not so much a nation builder, conflict between england (power center) vs. the rest of the nation. Decolonization and loss of empire: following wwii, powerful but loss of expansion damages their ego, leave instability in former colonies.
