HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Jingdezhen Ware, Snuff Bottle, Qianlong Emperor
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Revolutions may involve peasant uprisings subsistence riots, social movements, coups, and civil wars. Revolutions combine all the elements of forcible overthrow of the government, mass mobilization, the pursuit of a vision of social justice, and the creation of new political institutions. Our understanding of revolution is partly based on our assumptions about the nature of the modern world. We assume the aim must be to create a secular democratic state. But religion played a different role in different places. Medium: porcelain with yellow glaze (jingdezhen ware), amber stopper. China europe, and the making of the modern world economy. Buds of industrial capitalism: capital accumulation, merchant capitalism, property rights. China as having acquired that full complement of riches which the nature of its laws and institutions permit it to acquire . The great divergence: china, europe, and the making of the modern world economy. Till 1750: world of equivalence, brink of ecological exhaustion.
