HIST 3420 Lecture 9: Nature of Imperial Rule
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In the in between period was european power. Brt world system was not in foremost in their mind. How do we make it work for us: the shift, from the greater age of pax brititania up to the early 1880s and new imperialosm from an age where the chief was the functioning of empire for. Brt benefit to defense of brt empire from other greater imperial power. It depended on what audience you are speaking to. Absorbed ideas to justify colonialism have to cultivate the land lay to claim it: english colonialism in america was an act of self couinsess christian people, and its difficult to detangle it. Eic wasn"t there to set up british settlement in india, there to extract profits, same as. Go native - present themselves as local rulers absorbed into native culture. Institutional presence- mission are most important thing: the churches of europe, don"t have an institutional presence.