POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Cultural Homogenization, Mercantilism, Natural Resource
28 Jul 2014
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Colonialism: religion, modernization, language change, conquest, exploitation, cultural homogenization, mercantilism, genocide, slave trade, resource extraction, settlement, feudalism, divide and rule, control. Indirect/direct: administrative, territorial, governance, act of taking and projecting power. Imperialism: white administrative systems, racism, tentacular, military, empires, political economic power, abuse, exploitation, slavery, civilization, civilizing missions, expansive, unity, genocide, occupation, white man"s burden, longer, conquest and genocide, manifest destiny. It is a political and economic system through which powerful economic states exert dominance over weaker states. State does not have to start colonies to be an imperialistic power. Self determination- everyone has a right to freely choose his or her own political, social and economic development: use it to fight back against colonization and to assert independence, justification. Dependency thinkers argue that creation of natural boundaries, building plantations and mines, imperialism destroyed industries, etc. causing population explosion in the third world due to healthcare improvement: still relevant. 3 phases of imperialism-exam: expand that empire: 1492-1776.
