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This weeks reading was on the Revolutions of Industrialization which took place between 1750 and 1900. It drew on the scientific revolution and the French revolution to transform European society. Most of the famous Indian nationalists believed that "Industrialization is, I am afraid, going to be a curse for mankind.." This is funny however because Mahatma Gandhi led his country to independence from the British colonial rule by 1947. Something to note is during the Industrial Revolution the human population grew from about 375 million people in the 1400s to about 1 billion people in the early 19th century. The Industrial revolution shows a response by human beings to nonrenewable fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. These were all replaced for renewable sources like wind, water, wood, and the physical labor of humans and animals. This is the time where sewers and industrial waste were emptied into rivers which turned them into "poisonous cesspools." One quo...

During this time they were talking about the abolition of slavery and how it played an important roll in the ideas and practices of the Atlantic revolutions. I found it interesting that they said the newly freed people didn't achieve anything close to political equality except in Haiti. This was also a time for the nations and nationalism as well as the feminist beginnings. In the documents it was talking about the French Revolution and the "rights of man" which was basically viewed as the philosophical core of the French Revolution. There was similarities between this and the US Declaration of Independence. They also had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 had 14 rules that they were trying to abide by. I believe that Frederick Douglas was an important part of this because he was a born slave that escaped and became one of the leading abolitionist, newspaper publisher, writer, and a spokesperson for African Americans. In 1852 he went to New York. The...

In the intro to part 5 it was basically talking about how the creation of a new kind of human society was established. This is what we know as the "modern" times. It all came into play with the the 3 different things that shaped it to be how it wanted to be. The three were the scientific, French, and Industrial revolutions that took place in western Europe. The big picture you can say is the eurocentrism that played the biggest part during this time. Chapter 16 could be known as the Atlantic Revolutions, and Global echoes. What this means is that the American revolution was going on between 1775-1783. This was a hard time to try and get independence from the British. This is also where the Declaration of Independence came into play in 1776. The French revolution began in 1789 and lasted until 1815. The outcome of the French Revolution had a huge impact on feminine equality because they were active during this revolution. I think this is very important because I feel like i...