AFAS 222 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Industrial Revolution, Gunboat Diplomacy, French Revolution

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Africana Studies Main
• Course: AFAS 222
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

By the end of the 18th century european diasporas were all over across the globe. In the 19th the industrial revolution was magnifying european power. English had turned two continents into english speaking continents. Industrial nationalism in the 18th century transformed character of wester expansionism. Gold and silver served as exchange value in rapidly growing capitalism european trade. French revolution demonstrated emerging european bourgeoisie virtues. Traditional demand from europe was for land on which to settle english population. Turned into a need for people to work for the mines and rising factories in western europe and securing overseas markets. Colonization - the sending out of bands of citizens to plan new communities. Industrial revolution changed chart of european expansion, wanted to take all over what they hadn"t already and yield industrial riches. British first fruit of industrial expansionism was the conquest of india. India was prototype of third industrial wave by europe.