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| Two Major Firsts of Britain |
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| 1) first country in the modern era to democratize [first modern capitalist society] 2) first country to create an industrial economy. |
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| Why is "first" important? |
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| every country after the first, is a derivative or imitation of the first. |
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| Why does it help the Britain democratized so slowly? |
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| since this period stretched out over a three hundred year period, one can easily see the steps that took place on the way to democratization. it's easier to see and understand the process of the economic change affecting the political changes. |
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| Why do other countries move faster? |
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| other countries move faster because they have an expectation of democracy- unlike Britain who didn't have a clue where they were headed. |
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| What is the relationship between climate and democracy? |
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| There is NO causal relationship between the two. Sometimes geography does play a role. |
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| What are some benefits of Britain's geography? |
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| Island- secluded, invaded less frequently thus less likely to have a dictatorship imposed, strong navy, useful large rivers, topography beneficial (unification and trade), fair amount of natural resources. |
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| What are some benefits of Britain's strong navy? |
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| trade, good for capitalism, traveling to create other colonies, large colonial empire, easier transportation and communication, controlling trade routes. |
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| When was the last successful invasion of Britain and where the problems that arose from this? |
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| 1066- Norman conquest. However the conquerors were French speakers and the people of Britain spoke anglo-germanic languages. |
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| What important system developed because of the 1066 Norman Conquest? |
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| A kings and lords relationship. this way communication from the king to the other people could happen. this was somewhat of a check and balance- NOT democracy. |
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| Kind of like inauguration, obligations to the Lord, recognition to codependence in governing. |
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| definitely not a great democratic institute. |
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| Lords came and sat with the king to discuss. This was a manifestation of the symbiotic relationship between the two groups. |
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| Venice 1348: It kiled 1/3 of the population in Europe. |
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| Was the plague necessary for the democratization in Britain? |
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| No, it was a facilitating condition, but it does not explain why Britain democratized. |
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| What movement arose after the Black Plague? |
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| Workers were hired after a lack of people existed to work the land. Lords now offered wage labor with is majorly important for the birth of capitalism. |
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| What does wage labor create? |
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| competition, working class, and a market. money is worth nothing unless you have stuff to buy. |
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| What is the number one facilitating condition of Britain democratization, capitalism, industrialization? |
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| So what's the whole deal with sheep... |
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| In the 1600s, lords began to inclose their lands with fences. they also built fences around common land. they kicked peasants off the land and put sheep there. raising sheep was more beneficial financially. this helped boom the textile industry. |
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| Peasants being eaten by sheep? |
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| Well the whole beginning of using sheep displaced peoples livelihood. It was brutal in terms of social dislocation. |
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| Why are peasants bad for democracy? |
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| They are not educated. They can't contribute to the market. And are not useful for development. |
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| Results of the peasants being kicked off the land |
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| if they survive, they congregate in towns. their children and their children move to cities and become the generation for the industrialization era. There was now surplus labor, because it took less people to work the land. |
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| What were some results of having surplus labor in Britain? |
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| private property was now owned versus the land. the process of buying and selling land came about. they could cultivate the land and sell excess. you do what you want because you own it. a merchant class was formed. middle class- educated, access to literacy. |
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| people in cities and towns that didn't produce their own goods. creates a market. easier share of ideas and information. promotes distribution of power. surplus labor more concentrated, cheaper to live there, more money to buy |
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| Important result of the English Civil War? |
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| the monarchy was restored but the enclosing land owners were able to create a parliament. king's power? forever checked. |
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free trade now, less control
marked collapse of power from land owning classes in Britian.
end of the oligarchy. |
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| Middle Class Reform Acts 1867 and 1884 |
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| ever male in middle class can vote, 28% now have the vote |
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| How does everyone else get the right to vote? |
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| 1918 and 1928- working class (thanks to WWI) and women's vote. 1970S 18 year olds and dons. |
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| What can we learn from British democracy? |
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| slowness. peacefulness. peasants, land owners must initiate change, cooperative. each group gained power because the previous group pulled them in. explains all and none. |
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| Why always replace systems with a variable? |
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| instead of looking at the whole system, you need to isolate the one thing that varies between the two cases. |
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| most similar systems design |
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| two things that are similar but different in one way- you want to look at one other way that it is different, and relate it to the first thing. the things that are similar don't explain the difference. |
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| countries with competitive political systems are likely to have a higher stage of economic development. not a perfect correlation, stage three. they are ex soviet states. |
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| The US did not have a feudal system, what did they have? |
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| free farmer agricultural society |
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| If you own the land, what else do you own? |
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you own the education, the money, the wealth, the military resources, communication. In a feudal society- that 10% of pop who owned 95% of the land got all of that
In the U.S. because we were free farmers, sold produce on the open market, one room school houses, build education systems. education more widely distributed not hierarchal
people had the bill of rights, guns
peoples army- distribution of military
resources are all around distributed better, with greater access to the people |
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| Why did white men get the right to vote in the US? |
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white men, the right to vote because they owned the land, the muskets, they had the education
they denied those things to minorities like blacks, Indians, and women |
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| Why are we studying Brazil? |
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| Brazil should be a very successful country and democracy. but isn't. why. Brazil will always be the country of the future... |
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| 5 Problems of Social Science? |
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| Controlled experimentation, cultural relativity of general laws, experimental intervention, subjective or value impregnated aspects of social phenomenon, and value oriented bias of social inquiry. |
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