The Industrial Revolution and the Convergence of Liberal Modernity: Market Capitalism and the Nation-State
CC: Chapters 24 & 25
- Canvas: Horwitz, “Capitalism and the Family”
Modern Industrial Imperialism
Antinomies of Western Modernity: Liberalism at Bay
A World Divided: The High Politics and Low Comedy of the Cold War, Decolonization and Globalization
CC: Chapters 29 & 30
- Canvas: Benjamin Barber, “Jihad vs. McWorld”
http://www.nancho.net/newchau/mcjihad.html
Final Exam Schedule
CIV 202-03Regular Class Time 10:30 a.m. MWF:
Exam Time: Thursday, 05/11 @ 10:30 a.m.CIV 202-12
Regular Class Time 1:30 p.m. MWF:
Exam Time: Thursday, 05/11 @ 1:30 p.m.
Exam 3 – Essay Prompt
(this essay is worth 60 points and will be written in class on the day and time of the exam; it is not a take-home essay)The twentieth century witnessed three global wars – WWI, WWII and the Cold War. Are these wars connected in any way?
Please answer this question by, first,
identifyingand
analyzingthe causes of each conflict. For instance,
which of the causes do you consider most important, and why. Second, based upon your analysis of these causes,
explainwhich, if any, of these wars could have been avoided.
Your essay should take the form of a narrative that includes specific details rather than broad generalizations. Your goal is to effectively communicate a clear and coherent understanding of the causes of these wars to the reader.
Identification and Analysis
of the Causes of:
World War I (20 points)
World War II (10 points)
Cold War (10 points)
Explain
whether any of these wars was avoidable (20 points)
Sample MCs: This exam is worth 60 points. Opportunity to earn bonus points may be available on the exam. Please use these questions and Quizzes Four and Five to study relevant material and prepare for the exam.
1. Nation-state building in Latin America was complicated by:
a. resistance to centralization of authority by economic elites who favored federalism
b. resistance from slave-owning landowners opposed to foreign trade
c. resistance from traditional supporters of big government and a rigid social hierarchy
d. caudillos who supported the monarchy and the Catholic Church’s liberal reforms
e. all of the above
2. The ‘labor theory of value’ is based on:
a. the contribution of labor to the value of a manufactured product
b. the difference between wages and the value of labor in production
c. labor’s contribution to the value of production that is seized by owners of capital
d. the value labor provides in the factory system of manufacturing
e. lowering the value and productivity of labor
3. As an ideology, market capitalism, or economic liberalism, claims that economic freedom and the pursuit of self-interest through competition in free markets:
a. promotes individual economic gains and profits.
b. results in economic efficiency and greater wealth for society.
c. promotes economic prosperity and greater economic equality.
d. a and b
e. all of the above
4. According to the Marxist theory of history, change over time occurs as a result of:
a. class warfare caused by irreconcilable differences between the economic interests of the exploiters and the exploited in society.
b. markets that create conflict between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie over shrinking profits.
c. class conflict that occurs because of price competition between owners of labor and owners of capital.
d. the creation of social classes based on antagonistic ethnic and religious divisions.
e. changes in the material conditions of work that cause competition between the means of production.
5. Modern nationalism emerged as a potent historical phenomenon in the twentieth century because:
a. it mobilized national communities to seek sovereignty as political communities
b. of its success in mobilizing aspirations for self-determination among subject peoples of the Austrian Empire
c. of its role in inspiring independence movements among the colonized peoples of Africa and Asia
d. it contributed to European and Asian rivalries and aggression that resulted in two world wars
e. all of the above
6. The Treaty of Versailles can be judged a failure because:
a. it dictated a peace that did not create a framework for postwar European peace and stability
b. it led to greater U.S. intervention in European affairs
c. it did not punish Germany and Russia for starting the war
d. of U.S. unwillingness to compromise on the principle of self-determination
e. the Russians and Germans refused to participate in the negotiations that produced the treaty
7. Unlike 1914, in 1938-39:
a. Britain and France were reluctant to wage war to thwart rising German power
b. Germany did not fear a two-front war because of a non-aggression pact with Russia
c. Italy was a totalitarian state and war had broken out between Japan and China
d. Western liberal democracies were more concerned with domestic economic problems than the international situation
e. all of the above
8. By the late-nineteenth century, Western domination of several non-Western
societies was made possible by Western:
a. military superiority
b. technological superiority
c. racial superiority
d. a and b
e. all of the above
9. The practice of New Imperialism led to European:
a. use of modern industrial technologies to dominate non-Western societies.
b. use of unequal treaties to open foreign markets to Western products.
c. conquest and colonization of India and most of Africa.
d. a and b
e. a and c
f. all of the above
10. Unlike the moral justifications for imperialism, material justifications
for the Imperialist Project emphasized:
a. the concept of “survival of the fittest” in a modernizing world.
b. the duty to engage in a “civilizing mission” to modernize backward societies.
c. religious superiority. d. a and c e. a and b
11. Factors contributing to rising tensions among European powers on the eve of World War 1 included:
a. Russian support for Serbia b. mutually suspicious and hostile alliances
c. national rivalries and conflict over African territories d. Germany’s growing military strength and support for Austria e. a and b f. all of the above
12. Which of the following is
false
?
- the requirements of total war meant that women were no longer able to work in factories on the home front.
- the Mandate System was meant to satisfy the United States’ demands that new colonies should not be established in lands liberated from Ottoman and German rule
- the Berlin Conference of 1884 led to the European scramble to conquer, occupy and establish colonial rule in nearly all of Africa
- the practice of European imperialism did not always lead to the conquest, occupation and settlement of foreign lands
- Stalin’s collectivization of agricultural production proved disastrous and resulted in famines
13. The outcomes of the ‘Imperialist Project’ i