HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Industrial Revolution, Rationality
17 Sep 2016
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Prior to the 1800, modern had a bad connotation as it was associated with the repudiation of the renaissance and classical learning. Took a positive character in 19th century as it was now associated with western technology and superiority, commercial might, and military strength. Intellectuals in the 19th and 20th century defined a new period of evolution to be modern. What made it modern was that it had peculiar characteristics that marked it off from pre-modern, meaning some parts of the world were thought to become modern while others hadn"t. Rapid and accelerating social, economic, and technological change. The industrial production of goods and penetration of commercialization into society. States organized through mass mobilization on the idea of the nation as the primary source of public loyalty. Bureaucratic and governmental interference in many areas of life. Tensions between science and religion, rationality and feeling. Problem with this definition- measures non-western progress to western progress.
