2A: Modernity Flashcards
1
Q
Europe 1939-45
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WW2
Infrastructure destroyed
Exploited vulnerability
2
Q
Post WW2
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Decolonisation UN - over 133 countries Truman 1949 Cold War Marshall Plan $13 bil Global S development
3
Q
Bretton Woods Conference 1944
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IMF and WB
US primacy of $
Economic liberalisation and free trade
4
Q
What is modern?
A
technology westernisation multi-sectors centralised state MoP and Fordism Mass consumption Gender divisions
5
Q
Rostow (1960)
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- Traditional Society
- Preconditions for take-off
- Take off
- Drive to maturity
- Age of mass consumption