GLOBL 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Darwinism, Congo River, American Imperialism
Document Summary
400 years of colonialism + modern industrial society. An extension if the modern power"s thru subjection of other people and exploitation of their resources. The new age of imperialism refers to period when rival european powers (excluding. Germany) and usa and japan extended their spheres of influence through colonial rule and exploitation. Great powers justified policies by claiming to extend benefits of civilization to the barbarians imperialism is all about taking over regions of the world and claiming their resources variants of imperialism. Independent country suffers domination from foreign government which didn"t have a former colonial relationship with it. Use of political/economic power to spread values to foreign culture at expense of native culture. 100 years between the end of the napoleonic wars in 1815 (battle of waterloo) and start of first world war in 1914. British navy controlled ocean trade routes and the sun never set on the british empire. Peace was imposed by british on its colonies.
