HIST-110 FA2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Boxer Rebellion, Shah Shujah Durrani, Unequal Treaty
31 Oct 2016
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Lecture 19 famine and the scramble for africa and china. One of the results of social darwinism is that it makes inevitable imperialism and the demise of indigenous populations. Others believed in tutelage that it was their duty to colonise the world and help them advance rudyard kipling. The impact of europeans outside the indian ocean and neo-europes was not great. Portuguese remained involved in the slave trade until 1886, but british and french interests largely limited to the palm oil trade, which was used as a lubricant in the industrial revolution. This was due to improved sanitation, the use of water filters, and the revolution in germ theory and discovery of microbiology. Source: p. d. curtin, death by migration: europe"s. Encounter with the tropical world in the nineteenth centuryi (cup, By the second half of the nineteenth century, africa was not as deadly as it had been.
