HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: The Revolutionary Age, Haitian Revolution, Crimean War
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How had the world changed between 1650 and 1870 continuation. 1880-1930, 27 million settlers arrive in us from other parts of the world. Land transport carries settlers further into indigenous lands. Made it possible to settle isolated areas. Us - destruction of buffalo, bison native americans pushed out for settlement. Some sources estimate 120,000 workers died over ten years of construction. Egypt bankrupt 1875 sells shares in canal to british. 1878 colonel ahmed urabi led an attempt to overthrow the pasha. By 1913, whole continent colonized (except ethiopia) 1848 peak of national republican movements, and also their failure. The revolutionary age set a new path for global empire. European empire in asia, africa and the pacific. Multinational and trading empires giving way to colonial empires. Colonialism as a system of racial segregation and hierarchy. Materialism body understood as a source of meaning. Differences in power between men and women represented as rooted in physiology.
