HIS 3375 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - The Stuff, Canada, French Language
20 Nov 2018
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Commodities have created links between typically separate locales. Commodities: product that is distinguished from a service and is something that tends to be undifferentiated and fungible: things that are bought and sold. Commodity fetishism: the perception of the social relationships involved in production as economic relationships among the money and commodities exchanged in market trade, rather than as relationships among people: karl marx, capital (1867) Staple: a commodity which dominates an economy"s exports. Staple thesis: the pattern of settlement and economic development in canada has been shaped by production of a few products for export. "people w/o history" (eric wolf, 1982: comparative cultures and area studies perspectives. The "new" world history: transnational and trans regional approaches, examining history on larger (global) spatial scales, comparative, environmental. Things in motion: through space, time, and culture. Diversions: diverge from their original meaning, meanings change w/ time. Blurred line, depending on cultural contexts and time. i. e. tobacco.
