POLI 381 Lecture Notes - Scientific Revolution, Rationality, American Literature
10 Sep 2013
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What have been the key developments in the field: most important elements and events, biggest challenge: separation from events and ideas, events strongly impact ideas. From a field experience you need to go to understand. Dominated by dominate powers: dominated by american literature partly because after the second ww they were in a position to vastly expand their university systems. Normative required desire to help the individuals who participated in the 2nd ww: has only recently begun to re-examine non-european. Focused on great events: do you look at great events or cumulative small events, wars, events that shake societies eg. rise and fall of. Roman empire, 100 years war, ww1, ww2, greek expansion. Establishment of cycles: rise and fall of empires, war and peace. Impact of ideas: rise and impact of christianity/islam. Christianity - effort to move away from a pleonastic religious orientation to a mono understanding. Middle east/india river systems: tigris; nile; indus.
