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Decks in this class (28)

beyond the nation state (part of reading 1)
written by Claire Vergerio
10  cards
Reading 3 - silk roads
Eric wolf the accepted and lazy h...,
Birthplace civilization,
Silk roads
9  cards
lecture 1
The end of sykes picot,
Main q,
Uest
12  cards
reading 4 (week 2)
Age of discovery,
Asia 1250 1350,
Empire building eurasia 1400 1500
13  cards
lecture 2
Introduction,
Imperial expansion process of des...,
Imperial expansion process of cre...
25  cards
reading 5 (week 3)
Great divergence,
Karl marx inventions that ushured...,
Causes great divergence 3 alterna...
27  cards
reading 6 (week 3)
Capitalism the concept,
Capitalism the history of the con...,
1870 def
21  cards
reading 7 - week 4 (myths of military revolution)
Military revolution thesis,
Western expansion prior to the in...,
About the idea that europeans won...
19  cards
lecture 3 - European backwardness
Eurocentrism definition,
About european empires last lecture,
Bottomline this lecture
29  cards
reading 8 - week 4
East india company is,
A state in the disguise of a merc...,
History expansion of power east i...
25  cards
class 4 - land empires vs sea empires C15-C18🏴‍☠️
Europe times eras,
Why the surge of eurasian empires...,
Mongol empire success factors aft...
20  cards
week 5 - reading 1 (Haitian Revolution)
Main focus article,
Global sociology,
Theories of multiple modernities
15  cards
week 5 - reading 2 (the liberal idea of civilization and its critics)
C19,
The liberal idea of civilization ...,
Guizot not civilized
16  cards
class 5 - When and why did Europe become hegemonic - the great divergence
Malthusian trap,
Escaping the malthusian trap,
The great divergence
21  cards
class 6
Review pomeranz thesis on the gre...,
Last sentence of assigned reading,
Different sort of capitalism
27  cards
week 6 - reading 1 (overseas expansion, imperialism and empire 1815-1914 Hopkins))
Ideology and scholarship in the s...,
Ex centric thesis,
Ideology and scholarship in the s...
12  cards
week 6 - reading 2 part 1 (colonialism + international law)
Complex relationship between sove...,
Colonial territories sovereign st...,
Argument of antony anghie
6  cards
week 6 - reading 2 part 2 (no enchanted place, Mazower)
Un end of the cold war,
Un reform,
Historical understanding in the d...
13  cards
week 7 - reading 1 (the cold war and third world alternatives, Bull)
International society until ww2,
The revolt against the west,
Us russia and latin america suppo...
4  cards
week 7 - reading 2 (Mearsheimer)
The liberal international order l...,
Main sets of arguments,
What is an order and why do order...
20  cards
lecture 7 (week 4, myth of a great military revo)
The military revolution thesis in...,
Sharman s critique,
Origins of the western military r...
17  cards
lecture 8 - the crucial role of mercantile companies
Main point,
Mercantile companies,
False assumption of the conventio...
16  cards
lecture 9 - case study: the French and Haitian revolutions 1789-1815
Modern concept of revolution,
Europe and the french empire ca 1789,
Causes of the french revolution
20  cards
lecture 10 - civilization, race and international order
4 general features of the long c19,
Method of intellectual history eg...,
Enlightenment and modern science
11  cards
lecture 11 - high imperialism and world war
High imperialism when definition,
Berlin conference 1884 85,
Two related theories of high new ...
9  cards
lecture 12 - building a new world order 1919-1945
Communist world revolution,
Communist world revolution,
February and october revolutions ...
18  cards
lecture 13 - cold war and third world alternatives
The bomb,
Nuclear deterence,
Definition of the cold war
14  cards
lecture 14 - crisis of the international order
Neocolonialism,
Tricontinental conference 1966,
Against neocolonialism
11  cards

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