NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Digital Negative, Bes, Kea
10 Jan 2016
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Nats 1775 unit 6 tech and imperialism: science, technology and justifications for colonization, the civilizing mission justification for european conquest and dominance in 19th century. Based on paternalistic notion that it is the european"s duty to better the situation of the native who was not as civilized . Idea was to bring peace and order to areas where there are wars, constant conflicts. Christian missionaries often used idea of western scientific and technological dominance as way to prove to the non-western peoples that christianity was superior religion conversion would lead to their salvation. This included missionaries teaching non-western people technical skills, ideas about western cleanliness, hygiene, social discipline in hopes of civilizing these societies idea that christian civilizations more scientifically and technically proficient and efficient that other. Non-western cultures had different timekeeping methods from europeans; did not always rely on mechanized clock time of europeans.
