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Notes on video lecture:
The Global Upheavals of the Mid-19th Century
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on July 24, 2015 (go to class or lectures)
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Mexico, embedded, outsiders, losers, mistaken, Marx, simultaneity, proletarian, famine, climactic, discontent, China, Taiping, Malthusian, Moses, systemic, frontiers, sustained, proximate, capitalist, British, revisit, factory, Qing, order
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the prophetic                Rebellion led to one of the world's bloodiest civil wars
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reflected also the destitution that swept across            in the middle of the 19th century
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but poverty and hunger, two of the most                    causes of this upheaval, are not mere happenstance
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except for e.g. unexpected                    shocks
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but on the scale and at the                    level of what it was in the mid 19th century China
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there are more structural,                  reasons of why people would move toward this kind of violence
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difficulty empire faced opening up new                   
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population moving
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a trap called the                      trap
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that population can or will outgrow the means to feed itself, the result being widespread             
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increasing weakness of the          state
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unable to face the pressure from                   
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the intersection of political and economic factors
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Taiping Rebellion
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called for a new           
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also called for the restoration of an old order
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why in the course of the 19th century did we see so many widespread, massive upheavals around the globe at roughly the same time?
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similar prophetic movements in             
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1840s Mayan villagers rising up against the Mexican state
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in America
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War of 1812
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Tecumseh
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prophetic leader of a back country movement
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allied himself with the               
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leaders of these movements delivered a prophetic vision as            did
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prophetic drive to deliver people from bondage
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even in Europe
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farmers losing their lands
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artisans losing jobs to                workers
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revolutions of 1848
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1840s upheaval around the globe
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Karl         
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foresaw many of these revolutions
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a prophetic figure in many senses
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argued that there was something                  happening
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these revolutions had to do with a the new set of economic laws
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his theory of capitalism
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he and others were seeing major changes around them and were arguing for a hinge in world history
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thought that these upheavals were the beginning of a movement that would bring the                      system down
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called it the                        revolution
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he was                  in a significant way
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the people who were taking to the streets in 1848 in Paris, for example, were not the proletariat, or the factory workers, they were rather the              in the transitions, i.e. the artists and the farmers
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so Marx went back to                his theory and came back to it in the 1850s
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globally
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in the mid 19th century, there was a growing                      to the emerging world order
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while they bear important common traits, a significant historical question is: what accounted for the                          of these eruptions?

Spelling Corrections:

simultinaity ⇒ simultaneity
forsaw ⇒ foresaw
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