Introduction to Part 5 & Chapter 16
- During the years between 1750 and 1914, the emergence of the Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions.
- The demand for items increased due to the growth of the human population.
- Even though the European moment operated on a genuinely global scale, Western peoples have enjoyed their worldwide primacy for at most two centuries.
- The rise of Europe occurred within an international context.
- The rise of Europe to a position of global dominance was not an easy or automatic process.
- In Africa, fear of offending Muslim sensibilities persuaded the British to keep European missionaries and mission schools out of northern Nigeria during the colonial era.
Chapter 16
- The Haitian Revolution was part of and linked to a much larger set of upheavals that shook both sides of the Atlantic world between 1775 and 1825.
- Beginning in the early nineteenth century, a wave of Islamic revolutions shook West Africa, while in Southern Africa.
- Thus the Atlantic revolutions in North America, France, Haiti, and Latin America took place within a larger global framework.
- The American revolutionary leader Thomas Jefferson was the U.S. ambassador to France on the eve of the French Revolution.
- In terms of gender roles, the French Revolution did not create a new society, but it did raise the question of female political equality far more explicitly than the American Revolution.
- Bolivar was a leading figure in Spanish Americans who was struggling for independence. He received military aid from the first black governments in the Americas.
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