ME 2334 Chapter : SI Session #2
Document Summary
David brooks- human beings construct stories to help us understand our human and natural environments. All stories (narratives) are necessarily selections of facts and ideas about them. In historical writing, a question precedes the search for info that seems to answer the question. *so history is a science - a systematic body of knowledge. *history is also a humanity- it is about what it is to be human, The industrial revolution: the development of modernity. Formation of the eurocentric world system, 1400 ff. World wars and the end of the eurocentric world system. Local, often in kind economies with limited market. Formation of the eurocentric world system and (mostly) Emergence of global markets and polycentric world market. **economic change from connections and limited long distance trade. Break up of the religious unity of the west (s) Processes of becoming the others. (not in the textbook) They overlap chronologically, each growing with and/or out of.
