HUM 002B Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Great Zimbabwe, Clarence Darrow, The Dial
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Industrial revolution: profits could be increased mechanically, product of economic models, drive to maximize profit - core to capitalism/industrialization, physiocracy: an economic theory developed by a group of 18th c. 4. compassion: natural dispositions: compassion & community, and self-interest, a way to overcome self-interest so it doesn"t interfere with. In some ways the founder of utilitarianism: guy whose corpse is in the boardroom at university college london & Theology: or evidences of the existence and attributes of the deity, Industrial melanism: peppered moth: the great american contradiction. Benjamin banneker, august 1791: jefferson owned between 200-300 slaves throughout his life, slavery originated for economic and not racial reasons, only after the american revolution did the concept of race need to emerge. 1850s slavery was far more than a negative frame of reference for free-labor idealogues. it was an imminent threat centuries of western history had also demonstrated slavery"s insatiable urge to expand. (james oakes, .
