From: The Modem World Global History since 1760 Course Team <noreply®coursera.org> To: Subject: Starting Week 10 Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 23:50:04 +0000 Dear jeffrey epstein, Weeks 8 and 9 were relatively more concentrated in focus, Week 8 on the developments leading into World War I and the conclusion of that war's first major phase, concluding in the winter of 1916-17. Week 9, covering only about 13 years, concentrated on the way that war widened, deepened, and then was part of the breakup of so many traditional imperial systems. It concluded with a look at broader changes in global society in the "broken world" (a term I will always associate with the last book of the great Berkeley historian, Raymond Sontag). Weeks 10 and 11 will be even more concentrated, covering only ten years apiece, though they are both packed with material. Week 10 begins with the twin world crises that begin the 1930s, one that shattered economic security and another that dispelled nascent hopes for political security. A good deal more attention goes to the development of the powerful new prototypes of collective state mobilization in the Fascist and Communist states. But we do not slight the promise of another kind of model that flowers during the crisis years of the 1930s, one that borrowed heavily from classical liberalism, from national conservatism, and from democratic socialism. In my presentations I call these groups "social democrats." The United States and Sweden were leading archetypes for this new kind of hybrid during the 1930s. I define my usage of these terms, since this is potentially confusing. For instance, Marxist revisionists (e.g., followers of Edouard Bernstein in Germany) were already calling themselves social democrats to signify their commitment to democratic change and reformism. But please note that I refer to these ideologies as democratic socialist. My use of "social democrat" means something different. I use it to describe an explicitly non