HIS241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Class Conflict, Class Consciousness, Crystallization
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Part i: world falling apart - science and culture in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Political disarray: empire collapsed in 1871, replaced by third republic. Politically isolated: no allies to fight back with according to agreement with bismarck. Stops meddling in euro affairs/ foreign policy in europe; stops supporting nationalist causes elsewhere in the world. Industrializing fast: focuses on colonial and econ development. Econ weak and politically divided due to separate states brought together. Nation building difficult betw south and north. Seeks colonies to gain econ strength and political status, limited success. Wants to expand its borders to regions with substantial italian pop but controlled by. But mostly autonomous low industrialization some left behind by 1914; rest of country agrarian and rustic. Wants to expand south towards the ottomans. Victorian age heyday of british history. New expansions of colonial investment and econ development in other countries in. Interested in maintaining the balance of power, colonial expansion, economic expansion.
