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19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on January 1, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
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Asia, sugar, Roosevelt, tusks, wastelands, homogeneous, hinterland, British, natural, species, Southern, inwardly, frontier, extinction, commodity, single, grasslands, economic, Masai, predatory, sapiens, Europe, drained
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                 model: export-led growth
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changed formerly                 -oriented villages
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led to villages in Africa, Latin America, and         , which produced not for themselves but for the rest of the world
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had a dramatic effect on the                      regions in particular on the relationship between humans and other animals
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consumers would have a powerful effect on                environments around the globe
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converted complex ecosystems into                        ecosystems
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dedicated not for many kinds of commodities for their own consumption, but for a              commodity for other people's consumption
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dominated by a single plant or animal               , i.e. the staple commodity, for the consumption of another species, i.e. humans
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this changed the relationship between homo                and other animals and plants
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specialization
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begins with sugar
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the model spreads
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e.g. towns produced only            and imported everything else they need
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we often think animals are in trouble when we become to                   
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we hunt them down and cause their                     
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this sometimes happens
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but what also happens is the lands that a species require and the sophisticated ecosystems that they need, are eradicated, deforested, or               , transformed for the production of commodities for other people's consumption
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the human/elephant frontier in China
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                 China, driving elephants from their habitats
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after 1850, this allowed world population to explode
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1700: 625 million people
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1900: 1.65 billion people
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a 2.5 fold increase
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unprecedented
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2000: 6 billion people
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most dense in China, India and             
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but the                  regions were the areas of the world which were the fastest growing
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a war for land
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Adam Smith called the frontier the                     
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sometimes humans paid a high price but almost always eventually won these wars
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Kenya:            Land
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once belonged to the Masai people
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they got involuntarily inducted into the                Empire
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was a diversified ecology
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farmers and grazers
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became the subject for                    production
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coffee plantations
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ranching industries
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                     began to be closed
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in droughts, the Masai people and elephants used to move about to search for water
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1910: disease, famine, and a restricted land, the elephant population declined through failure to reproduce
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compounded by hunting of elephants for their           
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e.g. 1909 Teddy                   
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16th and 17th Century Merchant Trading Companies
17th Century Interdependence of Trade and Investment
Francis Drake and Mercantilist Wars
The Apex and Erosion of the Mughal Empire
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Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
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The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
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Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
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