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Notes on video lecture:
Turn-of-the-Century Civilization and its Discontents
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on October 8, 2017 (go to class or lectures)
Choose from these words to fill the blanks below:
intervisible, reasonable, closed, Maynard, resistance, regulating, weaker, discontent, dramatic, visible, Herero, global, Turner, global, Japan, Epsom, men, frontiers, king, Political, disparities, Equiano, media, Komako
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turn-of-the-century economic unease and swelling                      about the nature of the system that was coming into being
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was increasingly uncertain if markets be relied upon to be self-                     and self-contained
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the fear that economic difficulties could lead to economic difficulties
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John                Keynes (1883-1946)
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what would happen to the economy if at the center of the system was              than we thought
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the world economy spent several centuries suspending itself to                   
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capitalism had grown in expansion in its ability to extend outwards
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the ability to go              was running into trouble
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Frederick Jackson              (1861-1932)
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the American frontier is             
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the              people rising up against the German colonists
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shrinking of the world
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made the parts of it more                to each other
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social classes began to see the                        which separated them
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made the world more                         
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the right not to be property
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Olaudah                had been fighting this
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certain social classes were winding up with a larger and larger share of wealth and property
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women were fighting to have the rights that the Enlightenment thinkers had claimed to be so universal
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feminism
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started to transcend nation-states
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become intervisible with each other
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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)
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"women, too, are                      creatures"
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deserved to practice the rights that were being subscribed to       
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to participate in the choice of who represented people politically
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Suffrage March Edinburgh, 1907 and 1909
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led by the WSPU (Women's Social and                    Union), one of the main suffrage organizations in Edinburgh
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suffragette
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was a disparaging word used to scorn women who wanted to be able to vote as men did
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soon it became a label of                     
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fanned out from Britain to America and           
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some men were not particularly happy
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counter protests
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to roll back the demands of women who wanted to vote
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resorted to increasingly                  tactics
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1913            Derby
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Emily Davison hurls herself out in front of the         's horse
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trampled to death in front of shocked spectators
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1917-1918 Kimua              in New York
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feminist from Japan
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at end of First World War
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1904 International Council of Woman
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first truly              social movement
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shrewd in using the            to inform and persuade

Vocabulary:

intervisible, adj. mutually visible, within sight of each other

Spelling Corrections:

resistence ⇒ resistance
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