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abby c

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    • Brittany Alexis
      Brittany Alexis on 12 Apr 10
       
      The already set social classes, and inheritance of the social classes, caused a lack of social mobility.
  • In addition to economic differences, early modern French society was legally stratified by birth. Its three traditional divisions, or "orders," were the clergy, the nobility, and the common people. Nobles ruled over commoners, but even among commoners, specific individuals (such as officeholders) or groups (such as a particular guild or an entire town) enjoyed privileges unavailable to outsiders
  • When the King called for an Estates-General in 1789, the social tensions plaguing the old regime emerged as a central issue of the Revolution
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  • Because these privileges were passed on primarily through inheritance, they tended to constrain social mobility—although without preventing it, since they could also be bought or sold. Thus individuals and groups
  • abby c on 12 Apr 10
     
    This source reveals a multitude of social, economic, political causes and effects of the French Revolution. The source describes the harsh daily lives of both rural and urban people and how they were affected by the government and the economy in everyday life, as well as the difficult strict "caste system". It also gives a perspective on the "social unrest" and the political responses of the government to those small revolts. It shows the mistrustful relationship between the government and the common people and the means for the government attempting to maintain the satisifaction of the people.
Errett W.

The French Revolution - 1 views

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    • Errett W.
      Errett W. on 12 Apr 10
       
      This source outlines some of the causes and consequences of the French Revolution, with a timeline-esq summary of the revolution in between. The source is relatively terciary in nature. Its list causes such as population increase, growth of a monied middle class, and weakness of the monarchy as causes and things like the abolition of feudalism and Napolean's rise to power as consequences. In all, it's a very informative source, but lacks any real argument.
francesca roberts

Politics, culture, and class in the ... - Google Books - 1 views

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    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      This book, Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution, tries to show how the "marxist interpretation of the French Revolution held water".
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "merchants and manufacturers would emerge as revolutionary leaders on a local level" p xi
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "French people had learned a new political repertoire...competing ideologies challenged the traditional European cosmology" (2)
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    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "The French managed to invest [politics and the concept of politicak] with extaraordinary emotional and symbolic significance) (2-3)
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "The French founded a revolutionary tradition that has endured down to our time" (3)
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "The revolutionaries...opened up a new, internal political frontier and reaped the unforseen fruits of democracy and authoritarianism, socialism...and revolutionary dictatorship" (3)
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      "Both argue that the origins of the Revolution are to be found in a crisis of social mobility and status anxiety within an amalgamated elite made up of nobles and bourgeois. The growth of the population and prosperity had not been matched" (5)
    • francesca roberts
      francesca roberts on 11 Apr 10
       
      pgs 6 and 7 contain information on what different people believe caused the French Revolution. There are too many points to retype, so just look on both pages.
Amy Barrett

Politics, culture, and class in the ... - Google Books - 0 views

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    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 2 figure in the French Revolution: "[...] Gregoire proclaimed in January 1794: 'The French people have gone beyond all other peoples [...] there is still an enormous gap between what we are and what we could be. Let us hurry to fill this gap; let us reconstitute human nature by giving it a new stamp." Gregoire was a leader who helped start French Revolution?
    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 2 "By the end of the decade of revolution, French people (and Westerners more generally) had learned a new political repertoire: ideology appeared as a concept, and competing ideologies challenged the traditional European cosmology of order and harmony; propaganda became associated with political purposes; the Jacobin clubs demonstrated the potential of mass political parties; and Napoleon established the first secular police state with his claim to stand above parties."
    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 8 "Most research has been undertaken to test the Marxist account. Army officers, magistrates, and elite cultural institutions of the Old Regime have all been examined in order to determine the reality of prerevolutionary class cleavages."
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    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 10 "In the Marxist account, liberal constitutionalism, democracy, terror, and authoritarian rule all appear as the handmaidens of the consolidation of bougeois hegemony. In the Tocquevillian analysis, they all serve the progress of centralized power. Revisionist accounts are less consistent in this regard [...] In the writings of Richard Cobb, for instance, revolutionary politics express the resentments and frustrations of a militant minority; there is no compelling historical logic behind their actions."
Amy Barrett

Politics, culture, and class in the ... - Google Books - 0 views

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    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 1 "The character of a people depended on the nature of its government." argumentative statement that's based on quote by Rousseau
    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 10 Apr 10
       
      pg. 2 "In the heat of debate and political conflict, the very notion of 'the political' expanded and changed shape. The structure of the polity changed under the impact of increasing political participation and popular mobilization; political language, political ritual, and political organization all took on new forms and meanings."
Amy Barrett

Senegambia and the Atlantic slave trade - Google Books - 0 views

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    • Amy Barrett
      Amy Barrett on 29 Mar 10
       
      "The organization of economic, political, and social life here bears strong traces of influence from old Mali and the Muslim religion."
Dane Dyslin

Blues - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Dane Dyslin on 26 Mar 10
     
    this gives snippets explaining the definition of blues
Dane Dyslin

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  • Triumph of the Will was a masterpiece of propagandistic filmmaking and is still studied as an important milestone in the documentary genre. It played a key role in popularizing the Nazi Party, portraying it as an irresistible movement and introducing to the German people—and, to the rest of the world—the leaders of the party. Many film historians consider it one of the most important cinematic works of the 20th century.
  • The rallies set against Speer's grandiose backdrop became known to the rest of the world thanks to Leni Riefenstahl's powerful propaganda film Triumph of the Will.
  • Dane Dyslin on 26 Mar 10
     
    This page outline instruments and styles of early african music
Thomas S

Slave society in the Danish West ... - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Thomas S on 26 Mar 10
     
    Slave conditions are revealed with great detail by this as well as various information on the life on the island.
Thomas S

A history of the Virgin Islands of ... - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Thomas S on 26 Mar 10
     
    This source reveals more information on the specific actions that took place in the revolt. From the beginning in Nov. of 1733 shortly after sep. 5 1733 when a repressive slave law was issued.
Thomas S

The Virgin islands, our new ... - Google Books - 0 views

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  • Thomas S on 26 Mar 10
     
    This reveals how the Dutch reacted to the slave insurrection by either leaving to St. Croix or toughing it out.
Thomas S

Hurricane Season in the Colonies - HBS Working Knowledge - 1 views

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  • Thomas S on 25 Mar 10
     
    The prices for slaves, buildings, cattle, and equipment provide help for understanding the economy of the time. Also with info. on how the storms harmed to the sugar plantations and what years they hit (note: that radar did not exist until the british made it during WWII so knowledge of storms/ hurricanes were found by direct contact)
Allison Hunt

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  • After a half century of guerrilla warfare against colonial and European troops, the Bush Negroes signed treaties with the Dutch colonial government in the 1760s, enabling them to live a virtually independent existence until the past few decades.
    • Allison Hunt
      Allison Hunt on 25 Mar 10
       
      Signing of treaty was brought on by prolonged warfare.
Mariano A

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  • known as the Gold Coast because Europeans knew the area as the source of gold
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      area had other valuable commodity apart from slaves
  • initial Portuguese interest in trading for gold, ivory, and pepper
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      Europeans did not come to this regions specifically looking for slaves. Initially they came for other commodities,
  • suddenly expanded the demand for slaves in the Americas, trade in slaves soon overshadowed gold as the principal export of the area
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      the establishment of slavery as primary export as is expected; also provides the cause
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  • exchange trade goods both for rights to conduct commerce and for slaves whom the chiefs could provide
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      provides insight into the dynamic of the slave trade
  • slavery was an accepted social institution
  • slavery and slave trading were already firmly entrenched in many African societies before their contact with Europe
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      explains why slavery rose to dominance so quickly
  • men as well as women captured in local warfare became slaves
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      explains who were the slaves in Africa at least before contact with Europeans
  • slaves in African communities were often treated as junior members of the society with specific rights, and many were ultimately absorbed into their masters' families as full members
    • Mariano A
      Mariano A on 23 Mar 10
       
      shows how slavery in Africa was not as severe or brutal as slavery in the New World
  • local rulers in West Africa engaged in slaving and received certain advantages from it
  • traditional chiefs in the vicinity of the Gold Coast engaged in wars of expansion for the sole purpose of acquiring slaves for the export market
  • pacify territories that in theory were under Asante control, to exact tribute payments from subordinate kingdoms, and to secure access to trade routes
  • supply of slaves to the Gold Coast was entirely in African hands
stephen levy

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  • stephen levy on 22 Mar 10
     
    has a nice depiction of sierra leone's political change over time.
Errett W.

Children and Youth in History | Children in the Slave Trade - 1 views

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  • Errett W. on 11 Mar 10
     
    This source focuses on the children in the slave trade. Its not incredibly in depth or detailed, but it does give a pretty good summation of an average slave child's experience.
Thomas S

Economic growth and the ending of ... - Google Books - 1 views

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  • Thomas S on 10 Mar 10
     
    This page, helps by revealing the relation of money to that of Slave trade. It also gives alot of information for three different regions which will be helpful.
Amy Barrett

The Atlantic slave trade: effects on ... - Google Books - 1 views

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  • Amy Barrett on 10 Mar 10
     
    This source uses specific statistics and relates to one of my potential research questions since it discusses causes for changes in the transatlantic slave trade.
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