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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
Though in class this week we talked about two different topics, I found it interesting how much they came to be connected. Through the readings, as well as lectures, I can see how Urbanization has become […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
My two sides of my family (mother and father) could not have had two different immigration/migration stories into the United States. My mothers family migrated to the United States as early as the Mayflower, […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
1.) In terms of structure and content, the two declarations are very similar. Both groups talk about the importance of the area due to their religion as well as they talk about their histories of discrimination […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 5 months ago
Based on this weeks readings and lectures, one major thing stuck out and interested me. That was the fact that the way that Britain controlled India was not necessarily by putting excessive force into rul […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
This writing was about the implications of ginseng, both geographically and economically. Author Kuriyama talks about the popularity of ginseng in East Asia due to its enriching effects on the body. He talks about […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
Noah, Lilly, Vu, Will, Jordan
1.) One essential concept to understanding the 20th-21st century is imperialism. Imperialism is a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through military force, […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
Because history today has been so Europe-centered, many people look at the imperialistic tendencies of European super-powers, while ignoring many of the Imperialistic actions of the United States. From looking at […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
1.) Judt talks about many thematic shapes of postwar Europe. I think that one of the more important ones is the United States relationship with Europe, both the eastern and western half. With the western half of […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 6 months ago
I think that Africa is a fantastic region to really expose the motives and feelings towards imperialism that Europeans had. With East Asia, in my opinion, more cut off from the western world, Africa was seen as […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 7 months ago
Apprehensive about the pressures of western powers, the Japanese set on a course for modernization and westernization in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As a result of said adaptation, the Japanese thought […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 7 months ago
Looking at lectures and readings from this week, one theme stuck out to me. As regions started to modernize, there were periods of rapid urbanization. Due to this urbanization, there was much instance of the […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 7 months ago
From class discussions/lectures as well as the readings this week, one theme stuck out to me as we learned about different regions of the world and their experiences during the early 1900s. This theme had to do […]
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Noah Golovan wrote a new post on the site MAKING OF THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD 4 years, 7 months ago
I do have a bit of a disagreement with Bright and Geyer’s claim that the world is no longer in a period of globalization. I feel that globalization in it self is ever adapting with worldly updates such as trade […]
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