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23 Cards in this Set
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Maximillien Robespierre
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"Republic of Virtue." Justifies terror and shows support of democracy.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Random speeches. Rabble-rousing and provides historical context.
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Edmund Burke
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"Reflections on the Revolution in France." Conservative against revolutionaries/change.
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Adam Smith
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"The Division of Labor." Economic solutions, one being the division of labor (assembly line).
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Karl Marx
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"Communist Manifesto." Ideological call to arms for communists.
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Otto Von Bismarck
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"Blood and Iron speech." Using Prussian military to help unify Germany and also discussing Germany's history.
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Ernst Renan
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"What is a Nation?" Discusses nations vs. empires, with support for the spiritualism of the nation.
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Emmeline Pankhurst
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"Why We Are Militant." Suffrage for women and why it is needed now.
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Charles Darwin
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"The Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man." Natural selection and evolution of man.
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Friedrich Nietzsche
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"The Birth of Tragedy," "The Will to Power," and "The Antichrist." Man's drive for power and contempt for both democracy and socialism.
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Sigmund Freud
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"The Unconscious" and "Civilization and Its Discontents." The mind's unconscious and
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Filippo Marinetti
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"The Futurist Manifesto." Encourages violence and uprising.
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Joseph Chamberlain
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"The White Man's Burden." British duty to train the backwards Africans.
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Karl Pearson
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"Social Darwinism: Imperialism Justified by Nature." Strong advocate of Social Darwinism and conquering the less powerful (i.e. Africans).
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John Hobson
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"Imperialism." Criticized imperialism and promoted social equality.
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Edmund Morel
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"The Black Man's Burden." Left-winger who wanted to educate the public about atrocities in Africa.
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Bal Tilak
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Speech to the Indian National Congress. New Party spokesman who was against British rule.
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Yamagata Aritomo
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Military advisor who modernized Japan's army to keep it up to Western standards.
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Stefan Zweig
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"The World of Yesterday." Zweig recalls the scene in Vienna after the outbreak of WWI and the naivete of it all.
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Erich Maria Remarque
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"All Quiet on the Western Front." German who showed the tragedy of life in the trenches.
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Wilfred Owen
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"Disabled." Poet who was a WWI vet and wrote poems bemoaning the tragedies of war.
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Naomi Loughnan
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Wrote about the female contribution to the war effort.
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William Blake
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"Milton." Poet who did not like the scientific part of the Enlightenment.
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