Outside the rest the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been brining people up and writing histories years civil war since after the conflict ended. A combination of the sesquicentennial from new rethinkings on what 19thcentury globalization is, and our current context where americans are rethinking what it means to be part of a larger world in a postcold war era has generated a lot of rich scholarship in the last decade or so that situates the u. S. Civil war in a broader context. We are fortunate to have three young and excellent scholars who are going to help guide us through this. We look forward to your questions at the end. I am going to start to my left, Dave Thompson is assistant professor of history at sacred heart university. He was aa Knowledge High School scholarship student some time ago. [applause] his research focuses on finance during the civil war. His first book the evolution of Global Financial markets in the civil war era is slated for publica
The war. The discussion was part of a conference by gettysburg colleges civil war institute. Hello, and welcome to the second roundtable this afternoon. Teachian shane, and i civil war and early republic at ohio university. The subject of this panel is sort of asking us to step up and think from what the civil war might have looked like from 5000 feet. Were going to be internationalizing this conflict that we like to selfishly think is americas domestic civil war. We will be thinking about how some broader International Developments shaped the civil war, and hopefully get a sense of whats going on outside, in the rest of the world. In some ways, this is not a new thing. People have been writing diplomatic histories of the civil war really sends the since the years after the conflict andy. But the combination of the sesquicentennial, a new rethinking of 19thcentury globalization, and really the current context in which americans are sort of rethinking what it means to be part of a large
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Was a planned extradition law which spawned the protest movement but now hong kongs on rest is about so much more and its drawn the harshest words yet from the territories ultimate rule is in beijing they have called mondays takeover of the Hong Kong Legislative Council a blatant challenge to the one country 2 systems bottom line and they say we express our vehement condemnation against this why well think about the sort of pictures that we saw the unfolding of a british era colonial flag over the speakers podium and then the defacing with spray paint of the official seal of hong kong symbolic stuff 22 years to the day after britain handed over control of hong kong to china that anniversary also marked by yet another huge march out on the streets this was the 3rd we saw in as many weeks or a matter of weights hundreds. Thousands of people filling the streets protesting not just against the extradition bill but the government response and what they see as increasing control coming from
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