HIST-281 Lecture 2: The New Imperialism
20 Oct 2020
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The new imperialism: scramble for africa: a phenomenon that happened everywhere with territories being annexed. Britain expanded into afghanistan to counter the russian threat. The main area of activity in the end of the 19th century was in africa. It was a scramble for new territory: motivations for the new imperialism. Economic decline and growing competition from rival powers (germany and usa). New era of protectionism in the 1880s and 1890s encourages the annexation of new colonies. Geopolitical rivalries and a paramount concern to protect india and the suez canal. Most british colonies existed to protect the old shipping route around africa, protecting. Yellow press/gutter press: provides entertaining alternative to serious media publications like the times. Jingoism: the extreme, unthinking, irrational, patriotic conviction that one"s own country is superior and never wrong. Imperial education started very young: george arthur henry: wrote over 100 novels. Even in the 1890s, many viewed his literature as racist and xenophobic.
