HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: The Revolutionary Age, Haitian Revolution, Phenotype
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Haitian how to create a nation of white slave-owners, free persons of color and. 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. Phenotype differences of color and appearance given meaning as race . Darwin"s theory of evolution adapted to justify slavery and inequality. Workers no longer own the labor of their bodies. Series of new channels for global flows: suez canal, transcontinental railroad, New trade globalization intensifies europe"s industrial advantage. Massive waves of settler migration to independent nations in americas. Imperial rivalries will result in global catastrophe. World in 1870 was increasingly connected and increasingly unequal.
