UGC 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mercantilism
4 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Political reorderings: the spread of revolutionary ideas across the atlantic world in the second half of the 18th cent, people disagreed over the meaning of terms such as liberty, c. independence, freedom, and equality. Ideas that spawned the american and french revolutions encouraged similar developments in the caribbean and much of spanish america: the idea of the nation-state arises. The north american war of independence (1776-1783: britain"s north american colonies proved highly prosperous by midcentury with bustling port cities, a genteel class of merchants and plantations owners dominated. Iii. colonial affairs: asserting independence from britain, britain stood supreme in the atlantic world and political revolution seemed unimaginable, king george iii and advisers imposed taxes for the right to be. March 3, 2016: the people did not include women , slaves, indians, or even adult white men without property, the notion that all men were created equal overturned.
