Whatever the changes in technique and scope, the second industrial revolution cannot be compared to that the first revolution - the industrial revolution.
Difference between the Second Industrial Revolution & first Industrial Revolution.
Successful nation Building to increase International Political and economic revolution, culminating in a scramble after imperial territories in Africa and Asia.
Britain…
Indian Civilization
From 1860-1913, the estimated annual increase in agricultural output was 2%. Grain production dominated agricultural production throughout the 19th. A century and by 1913, grain cereals comprised almost half of the total agricultural output but were cultivated on nearly 90% of the land.
Institutional factors
The commune
Collective responsibility for tax payments and military recruits in the countryside…
Industrial Capitalism in Russia developed late. It reinforced and prolonged features of institutional backwardness. The onus of overcoming these limitations fell on an ambitious state and an overburdened peasantry.
Despite these limitations, the Russian industry managed spurts of high growth. A limited market for consumer goods focused industrial growth mainly on heavy industry. The industrialization of…
Mustafa Kemal played a minor part in the Young Turk revolution of 1908. Reform movement did not result in a Constitutional regime but in a visual military dictatorship.
Israel
Palestine went to Britain as a mandate under the League of Nations. In 70%-Arab and 36% Jewish & Christian.
Balfour Declaration
In accepting the mandate for Palestine, the British gov., in…
In 1867, the shogun prevailed upon to surrendering his prerogative to the emperor. When the Shoguns resisted, they were defeated by the principal daimyo.
This led to the abolition of the shogunate. The imperial residence was moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.
The old castle of the shogun was converted into an imperial palace. This series of events…
Tokugawa shogunate restricted international intercourse in Japan since the early seventeenth century. Americas, for eastern commerce, attained a considerable proportion.
Since about 1800, U.S. whaling and clipper ships had passed through Japanese waterways on route to China, and with the rise of steam navigation, the need for stations where ships could be refueled and provisioned became…
"While the modern state concentrated enormous powers in its hands, the politics of the nation became "democratic." It should not be a paradox since the - State claimed to represent the "popular" will and to rest on the "sovereignty of the people."
It was a democratic or people's state that exercised such vast powers. Multiple ideologies…
The modern European State imposed uniformity on its citizens. It was creating Nation and Nationalism. If all citizens were the product of the same Culture, the capacity to act on them, to predict responses, to satisfy preferences, and indeed to create a set of common choices was greatly enhanced.
Divided people suggested a fragmented state or…
Nature of the Modern State and the Role of Bureaucracy. The growth of nationalism and the development of the nation-state. The process of democratization, the role of the Judiciary, and the political parties in modern states.
Introduction
The exercise of power in modern European states was absolute, along with enormous population mobilization.
Although the states…
The study of European history is essential while studying the mid-eighteenth and mid-twentieth centuries because it is one among various cultures, it expanded too much of the world.
As a case study- how the culture pursued the course of modernization. [European culture was the first to transform into a modern civilization.]
Modernization
If modernity is understood…