HIS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: First Moroccan Crisis, Agadir Crisis, Alfred Von Tirpitz
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Relationships between empires, globalization & nations: empires as globalizing forces, gold procurement of wealth. Indigenous labor forced mining, displacement of indigenous people to make room for colonization labor. Settlement further displacement of indigenous people to replace with labor from home or slaves. To disregard these paths to glory is to be dishonorable. Female embodiments of nations: britain britannia (male version john bull, u. s. columbia. Why nationalism before 1914: rapid growth of empires pride in belonging, economic disparity appeal to nationalism to close gap, centralized states harness new technology to tie nations together. Germany created by bismarck around concept of nationalized health care (1 of many promises used to entice groups to join the new nation: increasing literacy & media. A literate population is required for communication, advertisement, creation of intellectual discipline which promotes nationalism: britain went from 50% literacy in 1840 to universal literacy (defined as less than 5% illiteracy) in 1900.
