E-mail: ssayek@wm.edu Phone: 221-2527 Course site: http://blackboard.wm.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers an overview of influential ideas and paradigmatic developments in the architecture and urbanism of the modern era from the Enlightenment (c.1750) to the 1960s. Using buildings‚ sites‚ projects‚ models‚ and exhibitions‚ as well as theoretical writings and manifestoes‚ we will examine how architects have responded to‚ and participated in‚ the broader social‚ technological‚ and aesthetic changes
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Chapter 16: Atlantic Revolutions‚ Global Echoes‚ 1750–1914 I. Atlantic Revolutions in a Global Context A. “world crisis?” B. Uniqueness of the Atlantic revolutions C. The Atlantic as a “world of ideas” D. Democratic revolutions E. Global impact of the Atlantic revolutions II. Comparing Atlantic Revolutions A. The North American Revolution‚ 1775–1787 1. Revolutionary? 2. English in England and English in America 3. New taxes and ideas from the Enlightenment 4. A revolutionary
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AMERICAS AND PARTS OF ASIA. - A GENERAL DECLINE OCCURRED IN IMPERIALISM DURING THE AGE OF METTERNICH‚ WITH GOVERNMENTS CONCENTRATING PRIMARILY ON INTERNAL PROBLEMS. - THE REVIVAL OF IMPERIALISM - THE "NEW IMPERIALISM" TOOK PLACE BETWEEN 1870 AND 1914. - REASONS FOR THE "NEW IMPERIALISM": - ECONOMICS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT SINGLE FACTOR IN THIS "NEW IMPERIALISM." MUCH OF THIS ECONOMIC EMPHASIS WAS BROUGHT ABOUT BY THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION‚ WHICH CREATED LARGE SURPLUSES OF EUROPEAN CAPITAL
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For the period before 1750‚ analyze the ways in which Britain’s policy of salutary neglect influenced the development of American society as illustrated in the following: Legislative assemblies Commerce Religion (95) 3. Analyze the extent to which religious freedom existed in the British North American colonies prior to 1700. (98) 4. Analyze the cultural and economic responses of TWO of the following groups to the Indians of North America before 1750. British
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Post-1789 Free Response Essays 1994 Discuss and analyze the political and economic reasons for the failure of parliamentary democracy in Germany after the First World War. Describe and analyze the long-term social and economic trends in the period 1860 to 1917 that prepared the ground for revolution in Russia. Analyze the common political and economic problems facing Western European nations in the period 1945-1960 and discuss their responses to those problems. 2000 Compare and
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Initially the first Dutch colony of Batavia on Java struggled to survive and became vassals to the Sultans of Mataram‚ who ruled Java. Later they would get involved in regional conflict between the princes and picked sides that would give them land. By 1750’s they controlled much of Java. Pivot of World Empire: The Rise of the British Rule in India Very similar to the Dutch capture of Java. The British often meddled in conflicts between local princes. They used a practice of France relying on native troops they
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Hickey AP European History Mr. Brad Pflugh 6 May 2013 Analyze attitudes toward and evaluate the motivations behind the European acquisition of Africa colonies in the period 1880 to 1914. We live in a world today in which the consequences of nineteenth-century Western imperialism are still being felt. By about 1914 Western civilization reached the high point of its long-standing global expansion. This expansion in this period took many forms. There was‚ first of all‚ economic expansion. Europeans
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The roles of women in Latin America and Western Europe from 1750-1914 were alike in the neither having many rights‚ but differed in their mindset of the matter and drive to change it. Women in Latin America during this time period were content to remain at home. They saw their duties as being a wife and a mother above all else. These women could not vote. They could not gain a position in business or politics. However‚ they did have the right to participate in political discussions. The lack of
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Atlantic Revolutions were the wave of revolutions that happened between 1750 and 1914. “the states and empires of Europe were wrack by uprisings‚ revolutions‚ and wars”‚ at that period of time‚ the empires of Europe were filled with atmosphere of revolutions. For example‚ the North American Revolution (1775-1787)‚ the French Revolution (1789-1815)‚ the Haitian Revolution (1791-1804) and the Spanish American Revolutions (1810-1825). What were the reasons for this wave of revolutions occurred in the
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Ancient Near East Classical Europe and Mediterranean East Asia Steppes & Central Asia South and SE Asia Medieval Europe Medieval Iran & Islamic Middle East African History (-1750) Pre-Columbian Americas Early Modern Era 19’th Century (1789-1914) 20’th Century 21’st Century Total Quiz Archive Access Account Similarities and Differences between Spartan and Athenian society By Alexander J. Knights‚ 15 September 2007; Revised
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