MMW 15 Study Guide - Comprehensive Final Exam Guide - French Third Republic, French Language, Democracy

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 15
• Professor: Nancy Kwak

Document Summary

Mmw 15: history is a way to have power, george santana says history separates boys from men, historiography is the study of us studying history. Skepticism- no progressive or whiggish notions of history: instead, deconstruction-> break apart opposition between appearance and essence, rewriting history into multiple narratives. Edward said: orientalization process- creating another that epitomizes what you are not and then asserting authority over it: the importance of territory, colonization: to cultivate or farm. Lecture 5- agrarian reform and great depression: by late 19th c an era of mass migration to la. Peasants suffer: from1890s, diaz rescind any progressive politics-> autocratic rule, heyday of economic liberalism which is the idea that the free market is the best way to distribute goods and resources. Role of government is to be very minimal in the economy: political liberalism is the idea that the government should protect the minorities. This is not democratic: a republic is a representative gov, 1907-09: depression.