POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Subsistence Agriculture, Cash Crop, Indirect Rule
8 May 2017
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Hard to generalize thanks to diversity and lack of written records. Almost all agricultural but they had different patterns and means. Considered traditional in terms of values and culture. Seen as pejorative but it generally worked for the circumstance. Columbus went to the caribbean in 1492 and cenral america in 1502. Latin america was colonized by the spanish and portuguese. American pattern exists, as an expansion in which conquest led to trade. Asian colonial rule began with trading relationship going back to greece and rome. Portuguese came first, followed by the dutch in the west indies and the british in india and the french in indochina. African pattern began with coastal colonization and slave trade for exportation (10 million) Didn"t involve much european conquest, which only occurred in the late 1800s with the. On behalf of the europeans who thought they were brining modern civilization to under- civilized areas.
