The Making of the

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The Making of the Modern World
Professor Frederick CHEUNG Department of
History The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Introduction the Medieval Origin of the Modern
World

• Magna Carta, 1215
• the Emergence of the English Parliament, and the
  English Constitutional Monarchy
• The French Absolute Monarchy

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II.

• (A) Thesis ---
• Age of Faith/Medieval Origin,
• (B) Antithesis
• Renaissance/Reformation/
• Discovery of the New World/
• Scientific Revolution/
• Age of Reason/Enlightenment, and

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II.

• (C) Synthesis -- the French Revolution and 19th
  Century Europe
• Hegels Theory on Historical Periods thesis,
  Antithesis, and Synthesis

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III.

• (A) New Imperialism (God, Gold, and Glory), and
  
• (B) New Balance of Power in the 19th Century

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III.

• The Theory on the New Imperialism in the 19th
  Century
• God (Missionaries), Gold (Merchants), and Glory
  (Soldiers for National Glory) Human Instincts
• New Theory of Balance of Power and the Changing
  of a New Center of Power in 19th Century Europe

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IV. Conclusion

• Apparently the End of the Old, yet the Emergence
  of a New Europe (Common Market and then
  Political Unification)

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• Holborns Observation of the Zollverein, 1834
  (Economic Confederation) for the Political
  Unification of Germany, 1871
• Prediction of the Common Market for the United
  States of Western Europe