Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

Outline: Industrial Revolution(s)

Origins and “Take-Off”

Preconditions
Markets, consumers, savings
Industry in Britain
Preconditions plus resources
JAMES WATT and MATTHEW BOULTON: Steam Engine
Power looms, spinning jennies
GEORGE STEPHENSON, “The Rocket” (1830)
railways
LANCASHIRE
Britain as “workshop of the world”

Global Industrialization
United States: LOWELL, MASSACHUSETTS
Amos Lawrence
Germany
Ruhr Valley, Rhineland
France
Lille

Impact: Global and Local

The Geography of Industry: Suppliers and Manufacturers
India: from exports to imports
USA: north vs. south: industry and the Civil War
A new Eurocentrism

New Towns, New Lives

Impact of industrialization: blessing or curse?
CHARLES DICKENS, “COKETOWN”
Factory Acts

Opportunities
LOWELL MILL GIRLS

European Expansion: The Atlantic

Hernan Cortes
Potosi
smallpox
Virginia Company, 1607
Massachusetts Bay Company, 1630

Outline: Britain and India, 1757-1857

•Context: Mughal decline post-1707

•BENGAL
•Nawabs of Bengal: SIRAJ-UD-DAULA
•East India Company: ROBERT CLIVE
•JAGHAT SETHS
•MIR JAFAR
•BATTLE OF PLASSEY, 1757

•East India Company Rule
•DIWAN, 1765
•Economic and Social Consequences

Outline: Atlantic Revolutions

•Themes: context, radicalism, legacy

–USA: 1776
–THOMAS JEFFERSON, DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1776
–Rhetoric vs. Practice in the new republic

–France, 1789
–DECLARATION OF RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN, 1789
–MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE
–“THE TERROR”
–OLYMPE DE GOUGES

–Haiti, 1804
–TOUSSAINT L’OUVERTURE
–LEGER SONTHONAX

Paper topics

History 1040: Paper #1: Due 2/15/06: 2-3 pages

Please answer one of the following. Remember that a good argument uses evidence and requires organization and clarity. Please proof read. An excessive number of errors in grammar and syntax will count against you.


1. What do Jahangir’s Memoirs (A/O, 52-56) tell us about how the Mughal Empire managed to rule successfully such a diverse place as India in the 1500s and early 1600s?
2. What reasons for colonization does Richard Hakluyt offer to Elizabeth I? Which did he stress most, and why?
3. Using the painting of Versailles (Bulliet, 381), please discuss how Louis XIV used architecture to demonstrate and defend his power.

Outline: Slavery in the Atlantic World

Outline 2: Slavery in the Atlantic World (keywords in CAPS)

Global slavery pre-1400
Aristotle
Athens/Rome/Africa
Christianity and slavery

Plantation labor in Spanish/Portuguese colonies
ENCOMIENDA SYSTEM
BARTOLOME DE LAS CASAS, 1474-1566

Why African slavery?
1453
justifications
philosophical/religious/pragmatic

Chronology
1440s: first Africans taken to Portugal
1518: Spanish ASIENTO
1621: Dutch West India Company
1672: ROYAL AFRICAN COMPANY

Impact
indigenous African societies: KONGO
“MIDDLE PASSAGE”
demographics
slave states vs. slave societies
slave ports: BRISTOL and LIVERPOOL

European Expansion I: Asia

Caravel
Prince Henry the Navigator, 1394-1460
Sagres
Vasco da Gama
Goa
East India Company, 1601
Surat
Calcutta

State Consolidation - Europe

Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan"
"Divine right of kings"
Bishop Bossuet
Louis XIV (r.1643-1714)
Peter the Great (r.1682-1725)
Versailles
St. Petersburg
"enlightened despotism"