HIST 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Germany, Decolonization, Nationstates
Document Summary
Outline of topics part one two vast transformations in the space of a century. Euro power with us, direct and indirect control over most of the countires (asia, africa, 1800: europe controlled 35% of the world total area. Countries in asia that aren"t involved by it: The preindustrial global economy: luxury goods and precious metals. Industrialization and the quest for raw materials and markets. Not just political control and economic domination: colonialism/ imperialism as a way of ordering and understanding the world. Latin america are coming under increasing indirect control by britain, and later us. Following the rise of nationalist movement and ww2. 1914-1968 (3 decades, 800 m people in more than 40 countries were decolonized , seized to be the subject of colonial power ) Membership of un 45- 156 by 1980 vastly of which were newly independent country in. Imperialism used to be spoken with great pride with countries that were practiced.
