Hey everybody Dr Dan here welcome back so today we’re going to talk about chapter 18 and I’m gonna just generalize really about this time period between 1890 and 1914 uh there’s nothing in this chapter that’s I guess not important but there’s some things that I don’t know that we
Really need to know a lot about so let me kind of frame this chapter up first maybe starting here in the US because some of you can relate to this so uh in this period of time were just these masses of immigration into the US and it’s because of industrialization and
All of the new jobs so all of the immigrants moving into the country some of you in this class maybe your great-grandparents perhaps were amongst those or or yeah or your grandparents if you’re as old as I am so my grandfather came in came from Hungary to uh Canada
And then from Canada into the us through like uh Niagara Falls Buffalo New York that region um in the 18 90s so again pretty typical of the experience of a lot of people so that’s sort of one big thing that was going on in the US and it
Was going on all over the world though there was a lot of movement and there was a lot of immigration between countries one of the reasons is because Transportation was getting better uh and if you were my grandfather who lived you know out on the steps in Romania you
Know now you could get to the Atlantic you know by train finally so you know Mass immigration’s happening a lot of it uh just because of Transportation a lot of uh Chinese moving into the western United States to work on the railroads and the mines out west in the 1890s as a
Matter of fact our first immigration reform or our first immigration law was in the 1880s the Chinese uh Exclusion Act and that’s in this chapter so um that’s you know one of the pieces of evidence we know that if there was a law pass to exclude Chinese immigrants in
The 1880s we know it must have been a problem and it was because because out west there was this big idea that Chinese laborers were taking over um uh American jobs which were actually Irish workers that wanted those jobs that’s another whole story so let me get into
The chapter a little bit that frames it up to let you know there’s a lot of mass movement going on and a lot of that mass movement is because of what we talked about in the last seme or last semester last chapter um which which was this
Idea of uh imperialism so we talked a little bit about the new imperialism and again I keep stressing industrialization in here because that’s why there’s a lot of changes and movement going on there’s jobs opening in the US there’s jobs opening in Western Europe because of industrialization people are moving
Around uh everything is modernizing so you know the chapter goes through this idea of progress and upheaval and movement so that’s sort of that part and then this discontent with imperialism um let me just chap go through here um um so it talks about immigration and some of the stuff I
Talked about and some pictures of like Tokyo and how crowded it’s getting so the invention of the automobile is coming online um and cities are booming so all of a sudden they’re starting to be and this is around the world they’re starting to be this uh real divide
Between you know Urban people you know city Folk and Country folk and I think that still goes on today to some extent you know not as much so that’s something else that’s happening around the world and the book talks about Urban life and these changing identities I mean the US
For example really changed from a rural farming type uh country to a city uh country dominated by non-farm jobs around this period of time in the early 1900s so again a lot of stuff going on a great map here uh about migration of people so you’ll go through that and um
Let me just get to here we go discontent with imperialism so one of the things I talked about was you know all of these colonial empires and all their need for raw materials and oil and and you know England taking over India and all of this stuff that was happening it’s all
Driven by imperialism so you’re going to read about discontent between people who were colonized and their colonizers you’ll read a little bit about the Anglo bore war in South Africa um interesting but probably not that important in the big picture and here’s a great map of
Africa and I think this is good to look at because you can see each one of these colors really represents uh a different Western Nation who’ve colonized these areas so you know no wonder the African people are going to start to rise up against their oppressors um and you can
See the book does a great job you can see these resistance movements all around this same period of time and and you know part of the reason is is because you know people are starting to communicate more you know even the workers and the laborers they’re starting to communicate more they’re
Starting to identify more and get together more and so as you identify as a group you tend to rise up against your oppressors and that’s what’s happening in this same period of time all around the world not just in Africa we’ll read about the Boxer Rebellion rebellion and
That was in China so same thing so um there’s the there we go there’s the boxer Uprising so again this is a peasant Uprising uh against the elite government who’s not relating to the people at all and and in this period of time I mean there’s not modern Communications people aren’t on their
Phones or watching TV so they don’t really know what’s going on uh but as people get more literate um they start to learn more about what’s going on and all of a sudden there’s like hey there’s this huge disconnect between the king or the Emperor who who ever in charge and
The people and you know it that historically works like that all the time with governments even ours so uh the Boxer Rebellion in in China and again sort of a a change from old to new and sort of the idea of the people taking over so read about that worldwide
Insecurities um again this is mostly about imperialism I the one thing I think that’s really important in this chapter to take away and again it’s not so much the chapter but the time period around the world between 1890 and 1914 um is is the fact that um you know
The Western World financially is just dominating so you read a little bit about Rockefeller in here you know with standard oil so one of the first guys to you know really kind of create a monopoly with oil and so you know Andrew Carnegie is really going crazy with
Steel around this period of time so you know understand that a lot of these rich guys and a lot of the rich banks have a lot more money than most of the countries during this period of time so the reason I bring it up is because industrialization has a huge impact on
People and um it it leads to conflicts because as these big countries you know want more more raw materials and more control they get into conflicts and one of the reasons this chapter cuts off at 1914 is because of World War I so that’s one of the conflicts that’s going to
Come kind of come out of all these um uh all these changes going on with people and with Empires so kind of you know stay tuned as we get into it uh that that’s going on so now we’re going to get into this part of the book cultural
Modernism part of this okay so I I don’t know if I don’t know how much of this deserves textbook recognition and the reason I say that is it’s not that Picasso isn’t important I love Picasso I’d love to own a Picasso you know I think they’re very cool and I think
Obviously they’re a departure from art that came beforehand so we should recognize it but again uh you’re going to read about you know Picasso and then you’re going to read about uh let’s see nitki somewhere in Freud so let me just get over there so yeah nit nitki and Freud
So um you know I have a strong opinion on a lot of this stuff like you know I had to read nitki in grad school you know for you know for Theory class very interesting all right sometimes hard to understand but very interesting and very uh you know certainly knowledge is power
And anything we can learn is good but I don’t know how um how you can apply nitki stuff to the real world and so I don’t know if if you know nitki real well if it’s going to like help you go get a job or anything like that so you
Know I I don’t know you know how much nich’s work but worth but I think he represents this idea of a flowering of thought and philosophy that’s going on all right sort of the sort of the tail end of the big Enlightenment that’s happening in the 18th century so nit is
In here and then you’ll read about Freud and again I think mental health is really important I think counseling is really important I encourage you if you need to talk to someone that um uh counselors out there are extremely valuable and they’ve helped people they help everybody all right but
I I will criticize Freudian uh Freudian psycho analyst a little bit because you know he was like a lot of people during this period of time that was very much an elitist and and Freudian psychoanalyst was not accessible to the working class at all so yeah it deserves to be mentioned but
In the big picture it’s pretty much discounted by a lot of counselors now just sort of the sexual longing childhood uh part of why things happen in your head um you know childhood trauma is bad enough so if you need help please talk to someone but I don’t know
That a Freudian counselor in Vienna is is really going to help you up that help you out that much so uh there are better there are better Solutions modern Mental Health Care uh cultural modernism in China again uh we talked a little bit about the Boxer Rebellion but we also
See you know China’s Modern Art I love this art I think it’s great so that’s cool uh same old thing with race I think we’ve been talking about it in the last uh chapter also um but again um not only are nations starting to identify in this
Idea of nationalism but but a lot of uh races and ethnicities are still identifying um and again it’s kind of complicated but as far as how it applies to this chapter and the only reason I bring it up um we talk about immigration here a
Little bit but I just want to um flip through as you flip through the chapter there’s going to be this part of pan movements okay and so when we talk about race and ethnicity hold on one second I’ll go backwards when we talk about race and ethnicity you’re going to read
About these pan movements and um they’re important to understand and I think uh I’m recording this on November 4th 2023 and I’ll probably reuse this in the spring in 2024 and right now the is Israeli Hamas War has just started and I don’t know where it’ll be when you’re
Watching this in the spring but but again you know these pan movements this idea of pan Islam this idea of Zionism which is the original sort of you know movement to for the for the Jews to to get into Israel in in uh uh in the 1940s
Which we’ll talk about uh these pan movements are going on and I think they’re important and I skipped ahead in this part of the chapter because I think as we apply um what we know today whether it’s war in Ukraine or war in the Middle East
Or War in China um a lot of times what we see is these wars expand because of this idea of these pan movements that hey we’re all uh Christians or we’re all islamics or we’re you know we’re all Jews or whatever so we all sort of group
Together in these large groupings so I think it’s particularly relevant today you know we’re all ukrainians instead of hey you know we’re Russians you know with Ukraine so so I think it’s important that we think about these pan movements and and how they change and how modern communication and literacy
Sort of changes pan movements as people learn about who they are and and identify as Americans or as ukrainians or as Israelis or whatever so important in this chapter so I to go ahead but I thought it was important to kind of interject that and I just want to go
Back a little bit uh because one of the things we talked about was this push back from colonialism and um one of the biggies and hopefully I didn’t go too far but one of the biggies was the formation of the Inc and uh maybe I did go too far the
Inc was the Indian National Congress in uh in India and again it was uh it was push back all right it was pushed back uh to English colonization so if I missed it in this chapter it’s in here U the other thing right here I mentioned the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act I
Mentioned that when we opened up the uh uh the lecture so there it is 1882 again it’s really that’s not only important because it was the first um it was the first kind of national immigration law in the US but it’s also important because it really started to form the US
Government and what I mean by that is is prior to the Exclusion Act the government didn’t have offices out west and stuff they had nothing we were only we were only in Washington DC there was no reason to have a federal FBI out west it didn’t work that way and there might
Have been Federal Marshals but there wasn’t a PR presence and because of this Chinese Exclusion Act in 1887 an immigration department had to form okay right away and they had to build some offices out west and and places where they could check in immigrants and stuff
So it’s really not only uh indicative of the racial attitudes at the time but it’s also an important part of American History because it’s this beginning of this physical American government that has offices around and you know places where you have to go check in so pretty interesting there uh we read about
Darwin in the last chapter and this idea that people applied Darwinism to everything from business to race that’s still happening today environmental movements um in the US a lot of that had to do with Elites oh let’s see uh sunat sen in China not going to spend a lot of time
On sunat sen uh because uh China’s going to be up for a lot of uh changes in the next two chapters so let’s just wait until we get to uh a chang Kai check um and and we get to the Chinese nationalist movement which is going to
Be coming up in the next chapter because changai Che is much more um you know much more um important or I guess interesting here here’s the Indian National Congress I talked about that as far as this you know huge Colonial push back this Inc is formed you know uh uh
By a group of Indians you to push back on uh British colonialism and to to try to find a voice for their own country so interesting to know about that again sort of part of this modernism that’s going on Hindu revivalism all kind of part of that the pan movements we
Already talked about good for us and let’s see that’s about it the a couple of things I just want to mention here so pardon me so you know it talked about um uh Picasso and it talked about Freud and I kind of uh you know made light of
Some of these things and and but but something else in this period of time it didn’t talk about let me just go over here so this is like the Harvard uh timeline of of significant medical discoveries so look at the period of time and I think this stuff is far far
More important so it should be in the book but we’re going to cover it anyway so look at this period of time between you know what 1890 and and 1914 but you know the discovery of appendicitis you know I don’t have my appendix thank God someone discovered it uh discovery of
How insects passal disease invention of the electrocardiograph invention of insulin I mean you know there’s some there’s some kind of big things here so you know keep that in mind as you read these chapters uh sometimes the historians that you know put these together are sort of selective about what they pick
And and I think these things um that are talking about um you know breakthroughs in medicine I mean what about electricity it does not spend a lot of time on Thomas Edison and sort of the electrification of the world which I actually wrote a book about um so you
Know it doesn’t talk about that so I just want to bring those things up because the idea of modernity you know is a lot more than Picasso and nitki ideas it’s really sort of the invention of the modern world you know that we all know about today so I think it’s really
Important to keep that in mind and let’s see was there anything else I wanted to talk about no that was about it I think I got all my notes so um you have a primary source exercise this week make sure you do it in inquisitive if your inquisitive is not hooked up to
Blackboard and it doesn’t show a grade uh call me or text me or email me and let me know so I can enter it and I want you guys to be safe and and uh Pray for Peace so that’s it for this week take care now bye-bye