HIST 2C Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Aristocracy, Commodification, Multinational Corporation
Document Summary
Social function of history instill identity, pass on collective knowledge/culture/tradition/values. Subject: one interconnected human civilization, with one past and one future. Began displacing western civilization in us education after 1970s-1980s academic. Political motives of world history: educate global publics to address global problems requiring global solutions. The cold war and western civilization (national/regional approach the history) Easy to think of the east as anti-western and anti-democratic. Capitalist bloc/socialist bloc = east/west = orient/occident. Western civilization: universal values of freedom, democracy, and private property. Interdisciplinary modernization theory viewed nation-states as discrete entities moving emanated outward from europe independently along a universal historical trajectory. World history: history of all parts of the world; terminologically, theoretically, and methodologically vague. Comparative international history: discrete societies are the analytical unite; comparisons illuminate transhistorical processes. Scholarly influence of marxist theories of imperialism. 1940s-1960s anthropology and sociology on the third world. Latin american dependency theory metropolis-satellite challenges modernization. Influenced by caribbean and latin american world-system approaches.
