EUH-3205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Settler Colonialism, New Imperialism, Civilizing Mission
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Westward bound: the caribbean and the americas. The focus was on colonization and agricultural production. The geographic focus shifts from the americas to india, asia, and africa. From indirect to direct rule over the new territories. from trading posts to conquest. Industrial might was crucial to the new imperialism. Improved transportation: with the suez canal (1869) a ship from britain could reach india in 20 days. Telegraph cables connected the disparate parts of the expanding empires. Advances in medicine enabled europeans to survive in regions where they struggled in the past. Europe had the duty to bring the benefits of its civilization to other parts of the world. Christian activists were a driving force in the fight for abolition of slavery (1807, 1833) The nineteenth century as the greatest century of missionary activity". David livingstone, those two pioneers of civilization christianity and commerce-should ever be inseparable (1857) The bourbon monarchy (old regime) until 1789.
