HIST 2500 Lecture 7: The New Imperialism
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An aggressively imperialist" britain doesn"t emerge until well into 1890s. Allow events in the margins to dictate their policy- don"t have a kind of coherent and long term set of principles it is reactive. Default assumptions start to form for how brt should react and resist to events in their territories. Shift by the middle of the 1890s: as marshall points out, events in europe a key catalyst to rise of global imperial rivalry. European anxieties about growing german commercial and military power: spread of technological developments that widen the gap in power between european nation-states and african, asian societies. Movement, and conquest, became cheaper and more effective. Key thing events in germany, step by step unification of germany into a single empire except for austria. Destabilization of things of the european order of things which had been established earlier. Germans taking advantage of new military and industrial technology.
