HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Exploitation Colonialism, Settler Colonialism, Civilizing Mission
Document Summary
1815 1919 (end of napoleonic era to end of wwi) Imperialism and migration: global redistribution of population tied with empires. Indentured labour sign contract & work off debt: racism because of great migration. 1914 europe held 85% of the earth. Ports and cities: goa, batavia, macao, cities established as trading ports which were not intended of being part of large territorial empire, develop financial institutions, combine, dislocate, or integrate with population. Modernity and alterity: mindset about being modern, thought of everyone else as not modern backwards, primitive: incapable, alterity: think of other peoples as being other. Imbedded in imperial policy if the people are thought to be backwards vs possibility of education = affects how the imperial country treated the colonies. Colonies and the world economy: raw resources, source of cheap labour, markets, monocultured crops, raise standard of living in britain, economic growth was not benefitting local economy or population.
