POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Hacienda, East India Company, European Colonialism
9 Mar 2015
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1492: convenient starting point for the beginning of an area of european colonialism that would last more than 4 centuries = shaping the post colonial world. Pre-colonial societies before the arrival of european colonialism (different from large systems of governance like india places where fragmented systems, economies, politics in villages, clans and tribes) Impossible to generalize about pre colonial societies because of. Their diversity that makes them hard to analyze. Various patterns of agriculture (predominant agriculture societies, agriculture production was more for purposes of local production even though it could also be assimilated with trade, but most subsistence-based. High birth and death rates to keep some population stability. = survival bound up with your immediate local. Traditional societies: it suggests that patterns of life (including eco activity) tend to reproduce years after years because it worked if farming works, you tend to reproduce it. Expansion of colonial rule: the americas (general pattern from asia/africa)
