MMW 14 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Crimean War, Cultural Geography, Jewish Question
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The age of (western) empire british empire, french empire, german. Empire (queen victoria of england, luis napoleon bonaparte iii of france, Otto von bismark of germany) the most industrialized and capitalist countries in europe, also have limited constitutional governments. The age of empire reflected the ideology that nation states were in global competition with one another for the worlds finite natural and human resources, and that capitalism was to be the dominant international mode of production. 20th century: manifest destiny (cid:449)as a(cid:374) ideolog(cid:455) of e(cid:454)pa(cid:374)sio(cid:374) (cid:271)ut (cid:449)as it i(cid:373)pe(cid:396)ialist, (cid:862)in 1845, a journalist named john o" sullivan spread the idea that influenced many pioneers toward the western frontier. He argued that it was americans" "manifest destiny" to possess the whole of the (cid:272)o(cid:374)ti(cid:374)e(cid:374)t. (cid:863) Meanwhile, spanish and portuguese empires confined to brazil, the caribbean, and the. Russia st(cid:396)uggles to (cid:862)(cid:373)ode(cid:396)(cid:374)ize(cid:863) i(cid:374) o(cid:396)de(cid:396) to (cid:271)ette(cid:396) (cid:272)o(cid:373)pete and protect itself against western powers.
