<table><tr><th>From:</th><th>The Modem World Global History since 1760 Course Team</th></tr><tr><td>Sent:</td><td>Sunday, February 24, 2013 7:20 PM</td></tr><tr><td>To:</td><td>jeeproject@yahoo.com</td></tr><tr><td>Subject:</td><td>Starting Week 7</td></tr></table>

Dear jeffrey epstein,

Welcome, again, to the hundreds of students who joined the class in the pas= week. You can certainly catch up.

The upcoming week, Week 7, will wrap up the first half of the course. By t=e time you finish we will have surveyed a period of about one hundred and =ifty years of world history, from the mid-1700s into the early 1900s.

Weeks 1, 2, and 3 set the stage for great change. Weeks 4, 5, and 6 descri=e the resulting transformation of the world. Week 7 is a major pivot pain.. It focuses on a period between about 1890 and 1910 of a "great accelera=ion." In effect, the first wave of changes have been experienced and dige=ted, for better or worse. A new situation has arisen.

Then came a further period of transition, which I tend to locate in the 187=s and 1880s, out of which emerges a series of new choices that — t=ken together — strongly define the contours of the world we can re=ognize today. The principal political ideas turn into ideologies, which t=rn into mass political parties. Almost all the major political movements =nd parties we recognize today take their characteristic form in the period=coming out of that transition and becoming fully fledged by the 1890s.

The principal institutions of modern commerce and economic life — f=om standardized money to large corporations — also take form durin= this period. The same is true for the principal kinds of educational ins=itutions — government-built primary schools, many more universitie=, the rise of specialized higher education (doctoral degree programs).

The principal discoveries and advances in applying many of the more Invisi=le' sciences — chemistry, biology (including germs and genes), ele=tricity — also are traceable to this period.

All this seemed to thoughtful observers at the time — from Henry Ad=ms to Vladimir Lenin — to amount to a kind of "great acceleration.=

So Week 7 is an important week. Not just about more change, but about the =omentum of change on a global scale. And the great intensification of all=these forces will produce a series of monumental struggles — even =uestions, for the first time, about whether humanity itself could cope wit= the forces it was setting in motion, trying to wield. If you have seen i=, by the end of the week you may recall (in a more light-hearted spirit) t=e Disney cartoon (ca. 1940, from the movie "Fantasia") in which Mickey Mou=e is the sorcerer's apprentice.

Best wishes,

Philip Zelikow

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