HIST 1056 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Hillbilly, Modular Form, Revolutionary Wave
31 May 2016
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Midterm study guide: list of terms and concepts: modernization theory (1/21) = 1960s, but developed out of the 19th century ideas of imperialism. = based on the notion that development is positive. Western industrial societies as models for growth in less developed nations. Linked with notions of teleological progress and western exceptionalism. // modernities like modern period, modernism, modern art. We are distanced from the products we consume: freud: modern life has produced social anxieties, toussaint louverture (1/21) = free black who led slave uprising in 1791 // st. domingue (present haiti) In 1825, charles x demands haiti pay an independence debt, or 90 million gold francs to compensate french slaveholders" lost property: haiti had to pay back 20-40 million between 1825-1947, under threat of a. French military invasion that aimed at a re-enslavement of the population of modernity beyond europe? tied to the idea of black modernity. Declares himself governor for life in 1801 constitution.
