HIS 2341 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Social Darwinism, De Facto, Eugenics
13 Sep 2016
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Debate over progress of civilisation industrialisation increasingly changing the landscape of europe. For some, industry and the changes that occur are something that signals the great future. Implicit and explicit reliance on progress things are going to continue to improve. The simple =idealised (not for the first time) Family moves to peru for four years when gaugin is young. Raised principally in france, though lives in denmark for a while, and then leaves europe in the 1890s. Sets sale for somewhere else (ends up settling in french polynesia) Once he has left europe, he produces art that idealises native/indigenous cultures. The motives for empire: i. ii. iii. iv. The means of empire i. ii. iii. iv. v. New imperialism empires before the 19th century, but not imperialist. Imperialist signifies assuming economic policy of a region and extracting its wealth while decimating its population. Sub-altern history from below, looking at history not at the hegemonic level.
