Tintin in the Congo- "white man's burden"

Outline-Age of Capitalism by Terzibasoglu

Origins of Capitalism( 30.03.09)

Capitalism, as a social system, where production is organised for exchange in the market for profit.
The novelty of this form of social organisation, historically specific.
Different accounts of the rise of capitalism

Commercialisation model: assumes rational individuals, markets as arenas of opportunity, associates capitalism with cities, continuity in history, bourgeois as the agent of change.

Critiques of the commercialisation model
Karl Polanyi: from markets to the market society
The rise of the market society in historically specific conditions and the necessary intervention of the state

The transition from feudalism to capitalism
England
France
The dynamics of agrarian relations: the agrarian origins of capitalism.

Mercantilism and Free Trade (01.04.09)
Mercantilism as economic nationalism, protectionism
Rise of the absolutist states in Britain and France, and mercantilist policies
Colonialism and mercantilism
Adam Smith and laissez faire
The idea of a natural order: the invisible hand, division of labour
English industrialisation and free trade policies

The Industrial Revolution(03.04.09)
Technological development is the result, not the cause
Agricultural origins
Creation of markets in land, labour and goods
English industrialisation:
the role of enclosures for the creation of a market in labour power, dispossession of peasants, emergence of a gentry and a class of wage labourers, the role of the Tudor monarchy, creation of a home market
The factory system
The family firm
Continental industrialisation as a reaction to English industrialisation
Latecomers
Protectionism
The role of railway construction
German industrialisation

Imperialism (1875-1914)-(06.04.09)
Imperialism and capitalism
Imperialism and industrialisation
The distribution or redistribution of the world as colonies among half a dozen European states
(land grab)
Economic motives
White settler communities
Raw materials
Markets
Protectionism
The fusion of economic and political motives
Impact on the colonized world
Impact on the metropolitan countries

The Working Class and the Bourgeoisie (10.04.09)
Democratisation of politics at the turn of the 20th century
Expansion of the electorate
Participation of the poor and the unprivileged to politics
Rise of mass working class parties
Trade unions
Suburban lifestyle as symbolic of the waning of middle class influence on politics
The link between the bourgeoisie and puritan values broken: spending as important as earning, the birth of the leisure class, tourism, sports
Changing structures of the bourgeois family
Who is middle class?
lifestyle and culture, leisurely activities and education as class markers
The growth and insecurity of the lower middle classes
Radical right in politics
Imperialism, war and nationalism

Week VII-Primary source-questions

-Is it possible to draw similarities between Drake’s approaches to Native Americans with Conrad’s approach to Africans? If so what kind of similarities and differences can be found?

-What does the civilizing mission entail? Civilizing mission of white men presuppose the civil state of one party and incivility of the other so is it possible to talk about a feeling of superiority on the European side? If so why do you think they felt that way? (Earl of Cromer)

Mid-term announcement

The midterm will be held on April 8, 2009 at 17:00. Each student must take the exam in the assigned room. Those students whose names are not on the room list will not be admitted to the exam in that room. (Students must bring their student ID cards. )

NH 301- section 02 ve 03
NH 304- section 09
NH 305- section 01,04, 05
NH 410- section 06,07,10
NH 405- section 08,11,12

Review sessions for the mid-term exam-updated version

Sunday- 1 p.m GKM (the meeting room downstairs)-Seren Akyoldas
Monday-6 p.m NH 201-Emine Melek Cevahiroglu

Review sessions for the mid-term exam

April 3,2009 Friday 5p.m NH 201 (Ceren Abi)
April 3,2009 Friday 5p.m NH 202(Umit Firat Acikgoz)
April 6,2009 Monday 5p.m NH 201(Emine Melek Cevahiroglu)

April 6,2009 Monday 5p.m NH 202( Seren Akyoldas)-Maybe this session would be placed with a review session on Sunday(April 5,2009)-GKM? It is going to be announced tomorrow here...

Tomorrow and next Friday, there will be regular problem sessions as well.

Announcement for the mid-term exam

For the Hist 106 midterm exam, you will be responsible for all topics that have been covered, up to the Age of Capitalism. The Age of Capitalism, that is this week's lectures, will not be included in the midterm exam.