HIS282H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Kingdom Of Mysore, Tipu Sultan, Technology Transfer
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Convenience for history departments: 1789 and everything that came before it is early modern (europe) or pre modern (outside of europe) Conforming with the group values but these values change over time. Sari: traditional, blouse, petticoat, this is what the course is about none of it is traditional and emerges in the 17 th hundred. Modernity as political economic: nation state: most nations didn"t exist until 18th century. Bureaucratic impersonal: capitalism becomes as world system. Modernity as european: modern world comes from outside india etc. from europe. Either way, this was the plan all along! Modernity as global set of processes: did one culture (british / european) dominate, influence, and transform the world, or did transformations in the world create the context for the rise of british/ european dominance. Modernity, tho: capitalism and imperialism, no one really knows what is modernity.
