HIST 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: National Beverage, Externals, Anise
24 Feb 2014
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When exam period begins will try to give it out earlier if possible: two lectures tonight! Yaaay: first half: alcohol and imperialism, not actually on the syllabus, but it"s important should have been on syllabus, we talked about alcohol and the new worlds, 17th-18th centuries, today: later period. How it played into imperial policies mainly in africa, also north america: second half: alcohol in wwi. Spanish, portuguese with north america, followed by french, british, dutch, etc: but 1800s was intensive imperialism, countries attempted to grab what was left. Germans, somewhat to the belgians: italians had a bit, some smaller bits had some as well, **alcohol policies** Alcohol had been important commodity employed by europeans i colonies/territorial expansions from 15th century. Was used to pay for slaves (either directly or paying native authorities so they would make slaves available for europeans to purchase) Alcohol had become important medium of exchange in slave trade.
