Chapter 16

In this chapter we get into the the talk about Eurocentrism with stayer said is what most history is evolved around. Eurocentrism is a big emphasis on the Western European society and ideas. Its basically comparing “The West” to every other place like the east which includes eastern china and eastern Korea and the west is comparing themselves as basically being better or having a more important history. Strayer also talks about the Atlantic revolutions which includes the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitan revolution, and the Latin American revolution. All of these revolution are very similar because they represent enlightenment ideas and the ideas of the scientific revolution, they also all had the similar task of challenging and overthrowing their government. The Atlantic revolutions all gave rise to modern nations, it also represented a major shift from loyalties and the government and how the people shifted away from the control that they had. He also presents the echoes of the Atlantic revolution which included the aboltion of slavery like you can see in the Haitian revolution where the African slaves were controlled by the French, strayer also says it was one of the only completely  The rise of nations and nationalism and the emergence of feminism were all the echoes form the Atlantic revolution. 

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