Additional Flashcards
What did Priya Satia contribute to the narrative on industrial revolution?
Government planning played a central role even in the new technologies that are “arguably the most iconic developments of the industrial revolution,” like the steam engine and interchangeable parts manufacturing. Government investment “in manufacturing and technological progress” was viewed as “a national obligation in a time of political vulnerability.”
What book about power is itself emblematic of a form of power?
Niall Ferguson’s 2017: The Tower and the Square, Hierarchies and the Struggle for Global Power. About the power of networks - a word seldom used in 18th century but omnipresent in modern literature. Ferguson himself is emblematic of a form of power - popular history, which receives fierce criticism but wide readership - dissemination of ideas is an important power.
Able to do so through interactional expertise - inherently popular topic.
What conference was held in Stanford in March 2018?
Stanford Applied History - 30 white men, including ironic questions such as ‘same as it ever was: the history of inequality and mobility’
What was leaked in 2009?
Emails from East Anglia University which suggested that some climate data was tampered with. Known as climategate - writing retrospectively in 2014, Guardian noted that the affair had little impact on perceptions.
Why was there reluctance for the UN to intervene in Rwanda?
UN and Belgium forces present, but lacked mandate. US did not want to intervene in African conflict following deaths of US troops in Somalia a year prior.
What is the correct definition in German of domination?
Not Herrschaft! Beherrschung
What does Pierre Clastres argue?
Primitive societies - war machine is the motor of the social machine. Primitive society cannot survive without war. War is the best enemy of the state however.
Violence is a deliberate means to territorial segmentation and the avoidance of state formation.
