HST 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Tertiary Sector Of The Economy, Constitutional Monarchy, Mass Society
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Global: european control of world landmass: Role of europeans: colonial administrations, mass politics. Tools of empire: transportation, communication (submarine telegraph lines, military technology (maxim gun) South africa: boer war (1899-1902, boer concentration camps. German south west africa: herero wars (1904-1908, medical (quinine) British india: company rule imperial rule (1858, imperialism. Scramble for africa: berlin conference (1884-1885, belgian congo, king leopold ii, king of belgium. Hobson imperialism: a study (1902: excess capital, markets and materials, immoral and anti-democratic. Cultural: jules ferry, french prime minister (1880"s, religion, civilizing mission. Charles darwin the origin of species (1859: social darwinism and biological racism. Argument: the thirty years before 1914 were considered a golden era for liberal, capitalist, bourgeois europe. At the same time, beneath the surface of this belle poque were troubling political and social tensions, which would ultimately lead to the great war, the emergence of. Mass society and the destruction of 19th century european civilization.
