Global Ii Midterm I

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Palingenesis

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a jingoist/ultranationalist element of fascism: a revolution is needed to achieve a "national rebirth" ⇒ Triumph of the Will (1935)

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Berlin Conference

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1884 split African up amongst the major European powers of the time, marks the end of African autonomy throughout most of the continent

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Evolue

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(Part of New Imperialism from 1830-1930) French expression attributed to the most “assimilated” members of the extended French empire

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Toussaint Louverture

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Best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution, appointed himself Governor-General of Saint Domingue in 1800

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Imagined Community

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Coined by Benedict Anderson in 1983, depicts a nation as a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group

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“A few days in my old man’s factory have sufficed to bring me face to face with this beastliness...”

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Friedrich Engels (1845), in a letter to Karl Marx, Engels described the abominable conditions in which proletarian children worked in his father’s factory

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New Imperialism

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1830­-1930, an era marked by social Darwinism, industrialization and nationalism. Western powers dominate the globe, now including almost of all of Africa. British control ¼ of the Earth’s land surface.

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Blaise Diagne

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Homme evolue, becomes first black man elected to French parliament in 1914 as Senegal’s representative

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1830

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End of Restoration in France, Reform Act in Britain, Final defeat of aristocratic power in Western Europe by bourgeoisie, Emergence of working ­class as independent and self­-conscious force in Britain and France

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Bhisti

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traditional water-carriers of South Asia, Gunga Din was a bhisti in 1939 film

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Palingenesis

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a jingoist/ultranationalist element of fascism: a revolution is needed to achieve a "national rebirth" ⇒ Triumph of the Will (1935)

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Berlin Conference

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1884 split African up amongst the major European powers of the time, marks the end of African autonomy throughout most of the continent

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Evolue

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(Part of New Imperialism from 1830-1930) French expression attributed to the most “assimilated” members of the extended French empire

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Toussaint Louverture

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Best-known leader of the Haitian Revolution, appointed himself Governor-General of Saint Domingue in 1800

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Imagined Community

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Coined by Benedict Anderson in 1983, depicts a nation as a socially constructed community, imagined by the people who perceive themselves as part of that group

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“A few days in my old man’s factory have sufficed to bring me face to face with this beastliness...”

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Friedrich Engels (1845), in a letter to Karl Marx, Engels described the abominable conditions in which proletarian children worked in his father’s factory

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New Imperialism

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1830­-1930, an era marked by social Darwinism, industrialization and nationalism. Western powers dominate the globe, now including almost of all of Africa. British control ¼ of the Earth’s land surface.

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Blaise Diagne

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Homme evolue, becomes first black man elected to French parliament in 1914 as Senegal’s representative

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1830

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End of Restoration in France, Reform Act in Britain, Final defeat of aristocratic power in Western Europe by bourgeoisie, Emergence of working ­class as independent and self­-conscious force in Britain and France

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Bhisti

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traditional water-carriers of South Asia, Gunga Din was a bhisti in 1939 film

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Marcus Garvey

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1887-1940 Founder of Universal Negro Improvement Association Promoted “African Redemption” and return of people of African ancestry to their homeland.

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Dreyfus Affair

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1906: French Jewish military officer framed for treason. Dreyfus finally exonerated

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Material/Spiritual domains

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(1989) Chatterjee, a separation of culture into two spheres made it possible for colonized peoples to learn and incorporate beneficial Western techniques of organizing material life without threatening the self-identity of their national culture.

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Liberalism

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political ideology that values individual freedoms as well as limited government. It developed in 18th-century Europe and drew on the economic writings of Adam Smith.

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Theodor Herzl

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1897 holds first Zionist congress, “jewish question”, believed that anti semitism could not be defeated or cured and that the only way to avoid it was the establishment of a Jewish state.

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Indian Rebellion/Sepoy Mutiny

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1857 mutiny against British colonial Army followed by direct control of India by British government (replacing East India Company).

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Cutter

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Character in 1939 Gunga Din, naive and obsessed with gold. Comic representation of a typical British soldier in colonized India.

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"The Disease of Civilisation"

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1908 Gandhi writes, “now it is possible to take away thousands of lives by one man working behind a gun from a hill. This is civilisation...This civilisation is irreligion”

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Modernization Theory

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1800-present. Development is positive. Western industrial societies as models for growth in less developed nations. Notions of teleological progress and Western exceptionalism.

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Mission Civilisatrice

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1830-1930 (Part of New Imperialism) the French aimed to assimilate their colonial subjects as members of a culturally homogenous French empire. Failures due to personal prejudice between Frenchmen and imperial populations.

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J.A. Hobson

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Political writer, in his 1902 work “Imperialism”: Imperialism only benefits the few and runs counter to democracy in Great Britain.

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"White Man's Burden"

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1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling: the white man has a moral obligation to rule the non-white peoples of the Earth, while encouraging economic, cultural, and social progress through colonialism.

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Print Capitalism

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Part of Anderson’s imagined communities (1983), spreads ideas of nationalism and pushes people to “imagine” themselves as part of a particular community

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Proletariat

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The working people in the capitalist system who do not posses the means of production. Mentioned at length in Marx’s 1848 Communist Manifesto.

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Jeanne Deroin

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First woman candidate to run for election in Legislative Assembly. Arrested and exiled to Algeria for her work advocating for women’s and workers’ rights. Links marriage to slavery on the part of women.

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Zionism

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Theodor Herzl holds first Zionist Congress in 1897. An ethno-religious form of nationalism in which Jews believe they have a right to their own nation in the Levant.

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The Age of Revolution

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~1790-1850. An era of socio-political turmoil within Europe, at the end of which the aristocratic class has lost significant power and the main social conflict becomes that between former allies: bourgeoisie and proletariat.

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Pilgrims

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Heart of Darkness (1899): Pilgrims are the European agents at the Central Station waiting for a chance to be promoted to trading posts, so they can then earn percentages of the ivory they ship back.

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Mise en Valeur

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Part of New Imperialism (1830-1930) Rational economic development of a colony’s natural and human resources. Bring colonial subjects out of poverty and barbarism.

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1848

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Part of Age of Revolution (1790-1850) Workers’ revolt and Provisional gov’t declares 2nd Republic. Louis ­Napoleon Bonaparte elected President. Marx publishes Communist Manifesto.

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Karl Lueger

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1895 elected as mayor of Vienna. Lueger was a raging anti-semite and coined the term “Judapest”. Lays the foundations for Hitler’s National Socialist agenda.

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Napoleon III

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Related to Emperor Napoleon. Becomes President of Second Republic in 1848, declares himself emperor in 1851. Marx and Engels despair at the misguided proles, informs Lenin’s vanguard party.