HIST 103 Lecture 5: Wednesday, September 27
Document Summary
Industrialization and the quest for raw materials and markets. The preindustrial global economy: luxury goods and precious metals. Not just political control and economic domination, colonialism/imperialism as a way of. Justifications: we"re here to do good ordering and understanding the world. Forms of domination; or how did they manage to pull it off? . Military and technological superiority: role of coercion. Psychological and cultural strategies: controlling the making of meaning. Social and political elites carried throughout the day, collecting taxes, maintaining order, and they were supervised by a very small number of colonial officials at the top. Those elites began to lose credibility, in the eyes of their people, who began to view them as an uppance of ____ Would extract wealth from the people in the form of taxes. Began to be seen as puppets to masters. One of the most effective was to exploit existing ethnic or cultural cleavages.
