Introduction
—Major Themes
—Political
Upheaval – age of revolution 1775-1848
—Exportation of
western European institutions to settler societies
—Major Changes
—Monarchies
replaced by parliaments (extensive voting)
—North America
emerges as major force in world economics
—Series of
disruptions
—New cultural
forms – some challenge/support Enlightened thought
—New states –
Germany, Italy, and the United States
—Led to new
alliances – which led to the Great War
—Phases of Western
transformation
—1750-1775 –
Period of growing crisis
—1775-1850 – political revolution simultaneously with
industrial revolution
—1850-1914 – implications
of industrial revolution