INTD 200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2 + EMERSON: East India Company, Chartered Company, Personal Rule
2 Oct 2016
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> spain and portugal established their previously unplanned presence in the americas and created footholds in africa and asia: many scholars believe that economic motives linked to the industrial revolution launched the classic "high" imperialism of this period. Economic returns within europe were dwindling, and industrial capitalism had to search abroad for new investment opportunities and consumers. > british company rule in south asia : the company instead on governance that represented a rule of law : a commitment to law, rather than the personal rule of a print or emperor, believed to characterize oriental despotism". Company used its in uence to begin reshaping the regional economy. Companies were then replaced by formal colonial administrations early in the 20th century: british indirect rule versus french direct rule. > focus on metropolitan differences: colonial rule did not affect all colonized people in the same manner. > social darwinist ideas: the high imperial era looked somehow different in latin america.
