NATS 1760 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Bog, Ottoman Empire, Oligarchy
28 Nov 2013
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150-350 million years ago peat bog forests and marine organisms decayed in water, oxygen-deficient environments. Mitchell: historically set by the energy required to produce a fuel. The accelerating supply of energy enabled new forms of mass politics: dispersed forms of human settlement, but also new, concentrated forms of settlement (urban, not agricultural) Mitchell: the greater divergence movement from coal to oil that occurred same time as shift in economic activity in the global (from east to west). The old south-east asia (ottoman empire) being the global driver until the west usurped this role around 1800. The east was the primary economic driver is the past b/c of their resources. Representative government: early oligarchic alternative to democracy (83: plebiscite limited to property owners. 1870s, upheavals in europe legal order for unions/political parties to emerge. 1870-1915: age of empire and age of democracy: population concentration in cities.
