DEVS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Industrial Revolution
26 Sep 2018
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Reading: chapter 2: imperialism and the colonial experience. Global north and south is used to describe the world"s uneven distribution of political and financial capital. What these words are unsuccessfully attempting to euphemize (beat around the bush) is a separation of the world along a gradient. The motives for expansion were political-religious, born of a competitive tension muslim neighbors, and economic, europe"s desire for more access to goods. Scholars believe that economic motives linked to the industrial revolution launched the high imperialism of the period. Expansion of european empires was undertaken as part of a research for new markets. Hobson-lenin thesis has its critics, the critics point out the limited investment made in the new overseas colonies. Others believed the model places too much importance on impersonal economic structures. Great power rivalry drove europe"s statemen in a rush to seize territories as yet unclaimed in southeast asia and africa.
