European plutocrats tried to reconcile anachronistic demographics with ultra-modern production.
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- Historians dispute whether slave labor drove capitalist growth (similarity 0.83)
- Western industrial cities multiplied severalfold in single human lifetimes. (similarity 0.82)
- Declining ex-imperial societies scapegoat minorities to explain their problems (similarity 0.81)
- European states consolidated power through monopolizing violence and administration. (similarity 0.81)
- Dependent elites believed they had to westernize or perish. (similarity 0.81)
- Historical change forces theorists to invent new, more concrete concepts (similarity 0.81)
- Social reproduction of labor-power requires family, education, and cultural institutions (similarity 0.81)
- English antiquarians glorified the pre-Norman past to advance political arguments (similarity 0.81)
- Columbus was a product of Genoese bourgeois trade and manufacturing (similarity 0.81)
- Postmodernism may be the same epoch as modernism, not a radical break. (similarity 0.80)
- Caesarism is a compromise between fundamental social forces, distinct from Bonapartism. (similarity 0.80)
- The English bourgeoisie extracted moral discipline from working-class cultural goods to forge imperial unity. (similarity 0.80)
- Engels rejected the view that the economic factor is the sole determinant of history. (similarity 0.80)
- France’s early mercantilist state created a bureaucracy that long outlived its productive purpose. (similarity 0.80)
- The 1964-67 second republic pitted democratic nationalists against self-interested sectarian entrepreneurs (similarity 0.80)