DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Devs, East India Company
24 Oct 2017
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Devs 100: week 2 lecture 1 - tuesday september 19, 2017. Definition and practices change over timenevertheless, some generally agreed on meanings. Large political body that rules over territories outside its original physical borders. Centrally controlled by a dominant group: often an ethnic identity. Usually involve local collaborators" drawn from ruling elites. Sometimes settler" colonies e. g. australia, canada, south africa, argentina. Always result in unequal power relations between the core" and the periphery. Later empires involved private companies to off-load costs e. g. dutch and british east india companies always fragile, changing, compl. Changed across place and time nevertheless, some common patterns Search for trade routes: gold, spices, silk. Conquest seen to be morally justified, and even divinely ordained. Intrinsic pressures for economic growth from emerging industrial capitalism in europe. Imperialism as the highest stage of capitalism (lenin) Large numbers of europeans settled in some colonies. Destroyed or distorted existing economic, social, ecological and knowledge systems.
