POL 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Indentured Servant, Nnamdi Azikiwe, Provisional Government Of The Republic Of Korea
19 May 2017
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Imperialism: one country dominates another with the aim of controlling and exploiting. Domination can be economic, political, social, culture: empire building: colonialism: ownership and admin of one territory as if the former were part of the latter. Legacies of european colonialism: economic and demographic transformations, technological transformations, political transformations, cultural transformations. What motivated colonial rule: contest for land, wealth and political control. Idea that we are here to civilize you and taxes they were superior to the state. How was it justified: bringing civilization, development and advancement on people. Economic transformations: specialization in one or more agricultural commodities, cash crops such as rubber in belgian congo. Tea in british india, groundnuts in british gold coast: done in order to support industrialization in european colonies, cheap imports from europe hampered or obliterated, industrial development in the colonies. Internal population transfers (to work on tea plantations or mines) International population transfers (indentured labour from india to work on plantations in the.
