POL 13000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: French Revolution, Total War, Industrial Revolution
19 Jan 2018
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Lecture 4: origins of modern state systems part 2. Objectives: review major historical events from 1648, understand major organizing concepts. Identify how major events shaped our current international system: nationalism, linkage between domestic/international politics, cold ware bipolarity. Making the modern world: 1648-1789: the classical international system (or classical balance of power system, 1789-1914: the age of revolutions: nationalism and industrialism, 1914-1945: the era of total war, 1945-1989/91: the cold war. Absolutist monarchism: 1648-1789: relatively clam period, two key features, social, economic and political stratification, relations between people and rulers. Making the modern world: 1789-1914: the age of revolutions: nationalism and industrialism, 1914-1945: the era of total war, 1945-1989/91: the cold war. Age of revolution: 1789-1914: the american revolution (1776, the french revolution (1769, french republic (1792, levee en masse (1793)- conscripted able-bodied men into national army, rise of napoleon (1799, napoleonic wars (1803-1815, concert of europe (1815)
