HISTORY 2JJ3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cultural Assimilation, Eurocentrism, Africanization
24 Apr 2020
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Move away from eurocentrism: shifts in line of racialization. Malaria was great obstacle 1824 and 1841 2 sucessfule xpxedition to travel the niger w the view of exploring commercial opportunities: ended w death of 100 britons due to malaria. The mosquito prevented further eu penetration until the 1850s when the discovery that quinine offered some protection quickened pace. The promise of legitimate commerce: as if it didn"t exist before. Scientific interest was compounded by promise of such rivers as commercial arteries: lead up to scramble need to explore to map out. Exepditions were organize w aim of compliling hard data, acquiring info, related to commercial opportunities, pop groups, resources, states, and societies: legitimate commerce lay at the core of these quests knowledge for a commercial purpose. Idea that africa is a medical experiment that needed to be examined scientifically: river its veins, there to be discovered.
