INT 200 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Henry Morton Stanley, Cinco De Mayo, Congo Free State
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This novel really related to todorov"s conquest of america where hochschild showed the dehumanization and colonialism that was happening in the congo. Imperialism: practice that involves dominating distant land; exercising control, influence through metropolitan center. 3 theories: god, gold, glory, lenin: imperialism for profit, ultimate capitalist behavior, economic gain, political, response to competition among europeans for power/control. Empire: relationship in which 1 state controls other state/society. Scramble for africa o started on the coast and moved inland as they can. Belgium had recently become independent from holland in 1830: leopold"s father was the first constitutional monarch. Leopold was unhappy with position as figurehead, answering to parliament o lack of belgian nationalism divided between french vs dutch language, waloons vs flemish, protestant vs. Catholic; split along class lines geographically vulnerable (flat plane: belgians are uninterested in imperialism, but leopold has grand ambitions more mercantilistic (amass resources and wealth, no free trade)
