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From: The Modem World Global History since 1760 Course Team <noreply@coursera.org> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 2:28 AM To: jeeproject@yahoo.com Subject: Starting Week 6 Dear Jeffrey epstein, As usual, I extend a welcome to the new students joining the class. You ca= most definitely catch up. For those of you who are finishing up with Week 5, you know that this past =et of presentations stressed the rise of national industrial states betwee= 1830 and 1871, culminating in civil wars and the birth of new states arou=d the world, especially between about 1854 and 1871. India was more firml= unified under British state control with an imperial Indian Civil Service=to run it. The cling Empire, having barely survived a huge civil war, fran=ically engaged in "self- strengthening." Japan had its own violent upheava= followed by an intense period of political and social change. The wars o= unification in Europe created powerful new national states, as the civil =ar did in the re-United States. I could also have discussed other cases, =uch as the creation of a new, large dominion called Canada with substantia= self-rule over the old provinces of British North America (1867). Week 6 will discuss how several of these national industrial entities then =ought to become national industrial empires, ushering in a new and acceler=ted age of global imperialism. This phase really took off during the 1880= and had reached its peak by the end of the century. A subtext for this w=ek could be "varieties of imperialism." Many motives, approaches, circums=ances, and outcomes. Some laudable, some horrific. One unusual feature of my approach is the time I spend on one particular ca=e: China, especially between 1898 and the end of 1900. The case is obvio=sly important in its own right. We will try out on you now-seasonsed stud=nts an additional level of complexity. This case offers a concrete illust=ation of the mixture of motives, the available options perceived on all si=es, and brings out some choices that I think have not received enough atte=tion in the general literature on this period. A Chinese nationalist shou=d look back on this as a period in which China was lucky to have survived =t all as a relatively intact political entity. The scramble for empire around the world became part of a "great accelerati=n" felt by many observers around the world during the 1890s and beyond. T=is "great acceleration" had deep roots in how societies that experienced t=e 'first' industrial revolution responded to that new situation and engend=red another, even more powerful, 'second' industrial revolution with many =olitical and cultural associations. But, first, the age of imperialism =E2 . Best wishes, Philip Zelikow The Modern World: Global History since 1760 Course Team You are receiving this email because jeeproject@=ahoo.com is enrolled in The Modern World: Global History since 1760 <https://class.coursera.org/modernworld-=012- 001/class/index> . To stop receiving similar future emails from this class, please cl=ck here chttps://class.coursera.org/modernworld-2012- 001/authistop_em=ils?data=eKewSEZ8JUQz1%2BSYLPLMoKrddz8U6rZHU%2FgMiRLOWqknOoCzj6pqVXXXd%2=Gcl3tAV CB4emtj6KpZzljp9WwbyA%3D%3D%7CSIeEdM6je0073x3fPHo7pnFOO8UkU%2BrOKYt=u2kF7dmpUb98fq%2F1461B6RPO 8jesu69sRF4RRs%2BoiV94T4gkHlIgygsEz7UMyzQAk2rVI.8=YIP7i3%2BtObnX3s2eRFAh%2BK2ETt2OFba%2FQ.jhPWCAteRjFI UzsdUOdUhup7%2BWSFQFtAzO=CsiDdxF3Tm5CbQSorv> . Please do not reply directly to this email.=20 If you have any EFTA_R1_01306674 EFTA02341267 questions or feedback, please post on the class di=cussion forums. For general questions, please visit our support =ite <http://help.coursera.orpf> . date-last-viewed 0.0 date-received 1361154512 flags 8623750145 original-mailbox imap:Meevacation@imap.gmail.com/%5BGmail%5D/All%20Mail remote-id 276897 2 EFTA_R1_01306675 EFTA02341268