HIST-0028 Lecture Notes - Paradigm Shift, Laissez-Faire, South Asia
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Some people (white, rich ones) were inherently superior and thus hold power and money ect. Show our goodness from god, especially in technology and science. Push that we should share this knowledge. Missionary work becomes showing people in india, china, christianity through medicine technology ect. Missionary work---> mostly women 55-60 percent female. Missionaries also control the way that the us sees the world. Missionaries publish works about foreign countries, and tell of stories from abroad. Sign that civil society is very important to understand how a country interacts with the world. Paradigm- set of assumption, patterns and attitudes of a culture during a specific time period. Paradigm shift at this time due to capability. Capitalism post civil war, industrial capitalism will knit the nation together. Clerk at telegraphy office, controlled information going in and out about business. Very quickly learns what is happening business. Allows him know more when he enters the business (insider trading?)
