From: The Modem World Global History since 1760 Course Team <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 2:28 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Starting Week 6 Dear Jeffrey epstein, As usual, I extend a welcome to the new students joining the class. You ca= most definitely catch up. For those of you who are finishing up with Week 5, you know that this past =et of presentations stressed the rise of national industrial states betwee= 1830 and 1871, culminating in civil wars and the birth of new states arou=d the world, especially between about 1854 and 1871. India was more firml= unified under British state control with an imperial Indian Civil Service=to run it. The cling Empire, having barely survived a huge civil war, fran=ically engaged in "self- strengthening." Japan had its own violent upheava= followed by an intense period of political and social change. The wars o= unification in Europe created powerful new national states, as the civil =ar did in the re-United States. I could also have discussed other cases, =uch as the creation of a new, large dominion called Canada with substantia= self-rule over the old provinces of British North America (1867). Week 6 will discuss how several of these national industrial entities then =ought to become national industrial empires, ushering in a new and acceler=ted age of global imperialism. This phase really took off during the 1880= and had reached its peak by the end of the century. A subtext for this w=ek could be "varieties of imperialism." Many motives, approaches, circums=ances, and outcomes. Some laudable, some horrific. One unusual feature of my approach is the time I spend on one particular ca=e: China, especially between 1898 and the end of 1900. The case is obvio=sly important in its own right. We will try out on you now-seasonsed stud=nts an additional level of complexity. This case offers a concrete illust=ation of the mixture of motives, the available options perceived on