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Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on May 18, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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fighting, century, Ottomans, nation, rights, homogeneity, within, pluralism, process, fraction, aristocracies, outsider, warfare, China, total, citizens, custodians, arms, defense, color, Mexicans, resistance, equally, Jewish, bodies, invading, sovereignty, lethality, stakes, volunteered, service, paradox, defense, popular, acme, mercenaries, war, Russia, guardianship, Spain, similar
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with kings and queens no longer seen as the                      of sovereignty
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who is going to protect these human             ?
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how would societies protect these rights?
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it was the nation which was the new place in which                        was being invested
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the              would protect the rights of the citizens of the nation
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everyone in the nation was                endowed with these rights
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the presumption was a basic                       
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we are all members of the nation and basically               
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with some important exceptions
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people of           
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seen more as wards, i.e. people under                         
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how did the concept of rights and their location, i.e. in each member of the nation, affect            war?
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in older regimes, armies were dominated by the                           
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soldiers would be forced or pressed into               
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with nations, armies became               
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instead of paying people to fight, you had members of the nation who                        to fight
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the notion of a nation in          was created
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1813 The German Nation in Arms
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painter: von Gustav Graef
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popular                      to the invasion
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volunteers going off to fight in the                of the Prussian nation against the French
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in the painting, you see a              man going off to fight
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mother uneasy about her son going off to       
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citizens were obligated to join the army by virtue of being                 
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old regimes had relied on paid                        or forced soldiers to do battle
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did not have the ability to draw upon the              and lives of its people to fight their wars, but the new regimes did
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a consequence of that would be to raise the             
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the escalation of total war draws a tighter line between insider and                 
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it has taken a long time to accept the general idea of                    within the concept of citizenship
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each war is seen as a                of creating a nation full of citizens
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riding it from threats from without and exceptions from             
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it's ironic that this age that abolishes torture and slavery, yet increases the scale and scope of               
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this concept of total war reached its         
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marched into              with 600,000 soldiers
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returned with 80,000
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in            he sent 500,000 troops
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only a                  returned
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nation in arms fighting other nations in arms
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the last time the world had seen armies of this scale was 1000 years earlier in           
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we won't see international war on this scale for another               
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as the Napoleonic wars swept across the world
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this compelled all who were involved from the                  and later the                  to invoke the defense of their political community in the name of their nation against the other                  nation
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the carnage became a redemptive struggle for national               
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the                at the heart of this dynamic
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the rise of new rights coincides with increasing repressive power obtained through the                  machines controlled by the new governments of these new nations
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a combination of liberty and                   

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homogenaity ⇒ homogeneity
Columbus and the New World
1500-1700 Indian Ocean Trading system
Da Gama, Pepper and World History
Portuguese Indian Ocean Empire
16th Century Colonialism Fueling European Violence
Global Food: European Sugar, Caribbean Plantations, African Slaves
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
The Treaty of Westphalia as the Hinge of Modern History
The Influence of Silver on the Ming Dynasty
Political Reverberations of Ming Consolidation
18th China Resurgent as Qing Dynasty
18th Century Tea Trade, Leisure Time, and the Spread of Knowledge
Cook and Clive: Discoverers, Collectors and Conquerors of the Enlightenment
Strains on the Universality of the Enlightenment
The Enlightenment, Empire, and Colonization: Burke vs. Hastings
Enlightenment or Empire
18th Century Land Grabbing
The Industrial Revolution and the Transition of Non-Renewable Energy
The Seven Years' War and Colonial Revolutions
Napoleon, Spain, the Colonies, and Imperial Crises
Human Rights and the Meaning of Membership within Societies
Napoleon, New Nations, and Total War
The Ottoman Empire's 19th Century Tanzimat Reform
The Early 19th Century Market Revolution
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
The Train, the Rifle, and the Industrial Revolution
Transition in India: Last of the Mughals
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 and Its Ramifications
Darwin's Effect on 19th Century Ideas
Factors Which Led to the Solidifying of Nation States
1868 Japan: The Meiji Restoration
1871: Germany Becomes a Nation
North American Nation-Building
19th Century Changing Concepts of Labor
The Benefits of Comparative Advantage
Migration after the Age of Revolutions
Creating 19th Century Global Free Trade
The Expanding 19th Century Capitalist System
The Second Industrial Revolution
The Closing of the American Frontier
Africa's Second Imperial Wave
Early 20th Century American Imperialism
1894-1905: Japan's Imperial Wave in Asia
Rashid Rida and 19th Century Islamic Modernization
19th Century Pan-Islam and Zionism Movements
19th Century Global Export-Led Growth
Indian Wars and Mass Slaughter of Bison
The Suez Canal's Effect on the Malayan Tiger
1890-1914: Savage Wars of Peace
1900-1909: Russian and Turkish Dynasties
1899-1911 The End of the Qing Dynasty
The 1910 Mexican Revolution
The Panic of 1907
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
20th Century Questioning of Reason
Late 19th Century Anxieties of Race
The First World War
The End of WWI and the Attempt at Global Peace
The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919
The Wilson-Lenin Moment
1919 Self-Determination Movements in India
Post-WWI European Peace and Global Colonial Upheaval
1929 Economic Collapse
Changes in Capitalism between the Wars