ANTH 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Metro International, Tirailleur, World-Systems Theory
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Power, conquest, and a world system, culture, change, and the modern world. To strip an area of money, goods, or raw materials through the threat or use of physical violence. An agricultural plantation specializing in the large scale production of a single crop to be sold on the market. A firm that is managed by a centralized board of directors, but is owned by its shareholders. A joint stock company chartered by the dutch government to control all dutch trade in the indian and pacific oceans. The lords seventeen, members of the board of directors of the dutch east india. The active possession of a foreign territory and the maintenance of political domination over that territory. A territory under the immediate political control of a nation state. The notion that colonialism was a duty for europeans and a benefit for the colonized.