POL201Y1 Lecture : Colonialism

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Politics of development: week 4 j october 4th, 2010. Factory employment, production of surplus, economic specialization leads to. Union organization, demands for universal suffrage, political organization. Example of industrial revolution is hardly cannot be generalized to other settings. Most countries do not follow process of modernization to democracy. 64 former colonies of 195 countries in the world: many of these colonies are among the poorest in the world. In so called scramble of africa, imperialists drew boundaries that separated same groups and put together different rival groups. Important to be attentive to starting conditions when comparing developing nations. Pre-colonial starting point: political system, slave trade, technological capacity. In south, yoruba kingdoms: each one had very little political power, kings shared powers with chiefs in diffuse authority patterns, never amalgamated into strong centralized authorities. Implications: little extractive capacity (resources or labour, no way of coercing populations no way of raising army.

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