Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
Faith Science
heredity Merit
Rural Urban
Agricultural Production
Industrial
Production
The Long 16th Century
1490 – 1600
The Long 16th Century
1490 – 1600
•The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
Nation States
rights
power
sovereignty
The Long 16th Century
1490 – 1600
•The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
•The Reformation
•Martin Luther (1517); John Calvin
(1536)
Contested the Power of the Church
“Man will only be free when the last general is strangled with
the entrails of the last priest”…….
The Long 16th Century
1490 – 1600
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
† The Reformation
The Enlightenment
Human reason to combat tyranny,
ignorance and superstition in order to create
a better world.
Individual rights, the rise of liberalism.
The Long 16th Century
1490 – 1600
The Peace of Westphalia, 1648
† The Reformation
The Enlightenment
$ The Rise of Capitalism
Protestant ethic
individual choice
competition
Modernity involves a movement from:
Faith Science
heredity Merit
Rural Urban
Agricultural Production
Industrial
Production
Marx and Engels: History is the development of material
forces; that part of human activity which involves the
material (or physical) transformation of nature
Conflicts today:
Internal conflicts of modernization within nation states
External conflicts between modern states and those (states
and peoples) that resist modernization
So, as you can see, modernity is one of
the fundamental premises of how we
approach the study of comparative politics:
Modernity Political Systems
Economic Development
Gender/Women’s Rights
Human Rights