POLI 327 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Imperial British East Africa Company, New African, Chartered Company
22 Dec 2015
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Demise of slave trade: industrialization in europe, rise of new european trading firms, competition over new markets in africa, christian missionaries and abolitionists, slaves uprising and migration in africa. They would make money by doing so. Europeans had been trading commodities very efficiently and expanded their trade along the coast of africa (portugal established cape colony in south-africa) and had traded with. What makes colonization of europe different from other colonisations in the world: competitive nature of scramble for africa because in latin, racist underpinnings of the project. America spain had monopoly: nature of modern european states, civilizing mission; eugenics in the 19th century, evolved into modern bureaucratic states. Geo-strategic explanation: strategic rivalries, interest in monopolizing trade to india. Control of india means control of east coast of africa. Political economy explanation: drive for raw materials and markets, due to combination of state and private interests.
