HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Ecological Collapse, Macadamia, Industrial Revolution
20 Nov 2016
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Lecture 17 the creation of new europes lomoarcpsd: colonisation as networks, empires and settlements. The idea that european expansion took three separate forms; networks, Empire and settlement, comes from james belich, replenishing the. Earth: the settler revolution and the rise of the anglo-world, He says that networks are ancient, and we see these in the previously discussed trade networks. What is done by the europeans is an expansion of these trade networks further expansion into asia (russia) and africa (the cape), and the new inclusion of north and south. These networks were vital into overcoming europe"s poor trade system. They also allowed them to engage in biological imperialism , the ability to move organic products from one part of the world to another. Examples of this could be how sugar (and african slaves) are moved from asia and africa to the new world for cultivation, along with.
