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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
My family’s migration story isn’t very unique or special. From what I know, my mother’s side of the family came from Sweden. They moved to Andersonville in Chicago, the Swedish area. My father’s side came from Ir […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
Both documents are structured similarly. They begin with their religious history, talking about the discrimination they of their groups. They also both illustrate the idea that they have an inherent right to […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 4 months ago
This past week, we learned about Britain’s imperial rule in South Asia, specifically Pakistan and India. In the reading, India at 70, the author discusses the promises and the failure to meet them 70 years after I […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
This past week we learned and discussed Latin America and the effects of colonialism and American intervention. Western intervention in developing countries has been a theme of other weeks as well. In Latin […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
One of these “thematic shapes” that Judt discusses is the reduction of European nations. World War 2 brought about immense change in Europe and one of those changes is Europe’s power. European nation’s inter […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
The process of decolonization in Africa changed the course Africa was on forever. From a continent largely occupied by European powers to a continent of independent nations. One of the negative ramifications of […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
East Asia was in a state of fluctuation. The once-powerful Qing Empire in China was left reeling from the Opium Wars and Western intervention. Japan saw this as an opportunity to fill the void. Japan sought to […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
This week we talked about the industrialization of the Rhineland and Ruhr Valley in Germany, as well as the growth in Bombay and Jaffa. On top of that, we read about the race war of the Philippine-American War. […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
At the beginning of the “The Export Boom as Modernity” reading, I found the comment that the export boom can be explained or told in many different lights. It shows that even in history, it is possible to spin a s […]
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cquigley20 wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
One of the main points that Bright and Geyer talk about is their dislike of the “catching up” model. They do not like the metaphor of Western Europe innovating and then the rest of the world is playing catch up. […]