HIS244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Italian Empire, 1905 Russian Revolution, Postcolonialism
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The case of french indo-china: conquest of indo-china. 1: french intervention in south east asia takes place to protect french missionaries that were being persecuted there, gunboat diplomacy (tonkin, 1900), symbol of conquest, defines a system in which might made right. Instruments of oppression: prisons ha(cid:374)oi"s (cid:272)e(cid:374)t(cid:396)al jail, none of the freedoms and liberties that were enjoyed in france were in indo china. Japanese defeated european armies in the eyes of those colonized: double yolk of oppression (japan and china ruling together in 1945), outland theory, european access of energy had to go somewhere. White christian army: considered to be a national humiliation for italians, the protagonists of the battle, menelik, provincial monarch that claims biblical ancestors. His245 tutorial: class summary, before 1894, standard joke in european cartoons would be to make fun of japanese trying to be. Europeans: japan had war with russia over korea and manchuria.
