HIST 1007 Lecture : History Notes
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1. modern capitalism: precondition:17th cent, mechanism of maintaining society , impersonal institutions, formation of corporations, dutch east india company,1602, not private from gov"t, operating in name of gov"t. Protect trading posts: dutch, british, french-main corps. Part of market system: depersonalized labor, used to be job was your indentity. Name assoc. w/ job: now jobs are separable from person, part of market---commodity. 50% fatality rate: no support for reproduction, africans profited as well from slavery, slavery was endemic in africa. Reeks havoc: brazil, 130 tons sugar a year, largest slave importing country, control slaves, many escaped formed communities. Alaska purchased but us for 7. 2 million dollars by william seward(lincoln"s. Cherokee look at english as allies, fair amount of inter-marriaging: relations fade. Loyal to britain during revolution: washington. Treaty of holston: us recognizes indian sovereignty, jefferson. Wanted to spread ocean to ocean: manifest desitiny.
