Week Two Slides
I. Europe Moves Towards Modernity
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Karl Marx |
1848 edition of Communist Manifesto (in German) Excerpt from the Communist Manifesto: "All that is solid melts into air." |
Charles Darwin |
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
Richard Wagner
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Gustav Mahler |
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Arnold Schoenberg |
The Secession Building in Vienna Austria |
Thomas Mann |
II. New Imperialism
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Africa before the Berlin Conference |
Africa after the Berlin Conference |
British Empire at its height in the 1920s |
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The "Colossus of Rhodes" |
Text of the "White Man's Burden" |
Congolese who failed to furnish their rubber quota were often mutilated and tortured. |
Slide notes and sources:
All images are from Wikimedia Commons unless otherwise noted and are considered to be in the public domain.
The text from the Communist Manifesto is from marxists.org.
The image of Friedrich Nietzsche is from reed.edu, from a site celebrating International Moustache Month (not kidding).
Video clips are taken from YouTube and are used solely for an educational purpose.
The image of Thomas Mann is from the German Historical Institute.
The image of the Secession Gallery in Vienna is by the author.
Maps of Africa and imperialism are from unimaps.com and used under its fair use policy.
