ANT 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: World-Systems Theory, Resource Depletion, Coruscant
11 Apr 2017
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Reflects western expansion over past 500 years. Reorganization of territories previously occupied by bands, tribes, chiefdoms, kingdoms. Political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by a foreign power for an extended time. Empire: geographically extensive, ethnically diverse areas and peoples ruled by a central authority. Colonies: americas, asia, ports of the indian ocean. Goals: exploration; trade of exotic goods and slaves. Goals: new markets and resources to satisfy the new expanding global capitalist economy. How did colonial powers control people and resources: economic, political. Direct rule: settlers from imperial center run plantation-based export commodities and extractive industries. Indirect rule: local elites act as colonial bureaucrats. In many cases, local rulers not just puppets. Social advances in culture, education, and religion. World system theory: global system based on wealth and power differentials formed by economic and political relations since 16th century. Warned about costs of imperialism and justified colonialism as a noble enterprise.
