Stability, Empire and Doubt
הוצגThree threads for one century
- European states struggled to maintain international stability in an age of nationalism and revolutions.
- A variety of motives and methods led to the intensification of European global control and increased tensions among the Great Powers.
- European ideas and culture expressed a tension between objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, and subjectivity and individual expression on the other.
The CED's verb for maintaining international stability is...
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It concedes the outcome in advance.
The first thread admits difficulty
- Struggled is the CED's verb, and it concedes the outcome in advance.
- 6.5's Concert had already broken down in 1848; this unit asks what replaced it.
- The answer — alliances, unifications and crises — is what 7.3 will trace to 1914.
'Intensification of European global control' implies...
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3.4's network is being tightened, not invented.
The second thread joins empire to rivalry
- Intensification implies existing control, not a beginning: 3.4's network is being tightened, not invented.
- And the CED puts the consequence in the same sentence: increased tensions among the Great Powers.
- So imperialism in this course is never only an overseas story.
Which of unit 7's threads?
Sort each statement into its thread.
Select both poles of the CED's cultural tension.
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A see-saw, not progress in one direction.
The third thread is a tension, not a direction. The CED sets objectivity and scientific realism against subjectivity and individual expression — describing the century as steady progress toward science misses that modernism arrives precisely when confidence in objectivity is lost.
The CED treats imperialism purely as an overseas story, separate from tension inside Europe.
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False. The CED puts increased Great-Power tension in the same sentence as intensified global control, so imperialism is never only an overseas story.
The third thread is a tension, not a winner
- Objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, subjectivity and individual expression on the other — the CED sets them against each other.
- 5.8's Romanticism is one pole; 7.5's positivism is the other; and modernism arrives when confidence in objectivity is lost.
- So the intellectual story is a see-saw, and describing it as progress toward science misreads the claim.
The Concert of Europe had already broken down in ____.
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This unit asks what replaced it.
Writing the context
- The objective is the context in which nationalistic and imperialistic sentiments developed.
- Conditions: a broken system of collective security, industrial capacity looking for markets and materials, and a culture arguing about what counts as knowledge.
- Name each condition and what it made possible — one sentence each is enough.
A system built in 1815 to prevent upheaval has already failed once by 1848. What replaces it is not a better system but a set of private arrangements between powers, each aimed at a particular rival. That is a different kind of order, and it fails differently.
Unit 7 opens three threads: European states struggled to maintain international stability in an age of nationalism and revolutions; a variety of motives and methods led to the intensification of European global control and increased tensions among the Great Powers; and ideas and culture expressed a tension between objectivity and scientific realism on one hand, and subjectivity and individual expression on the other.