SOSC 1430 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Expansionism, Sharecropping, Capitalism Ii
3 Oct 2016
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Colonial experience and impact varied signi cantly around world. Double sided equation - what in uenced the outcomes of colonialism has to do with nature of the society doing the colonizing (european powers) and the nature of the colonized societies. Small scale egalitarian societies vs. large scale strati ed state societies. Tied to phases of development of capitalism. Break between feudalism to capitalism during period of industrial revolution in europe. Europe continuously expands - in search for different resources. Colonialism - split into two phases - rst connected to feudalism, second connected to capitalism. Monarchs, states, armies - organized as states - needed complex systems of administration. Based on mass production of food using agrarian technology. Elite and religious elite - one in the same. Serfs - landless - in order to live on land, had to pay the lords - no currency. Peasants/serfs subordinate to the lords - lords were powerful members of nobility and land owners.
