HIST 1011 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Lower Burma
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Late-victorian imperialism was a qualitative change in the nature of british expansion and a sharp deviation from the innocent and static liberalism of the middle of the century. New zealand the gold coast labuan natal the punjab sind and hong kong. Berar oudh lower burma kowloon lagos sierra leone basutoland griqualand and transvaal queensland and british columbia. Great britain in s africa wanted to keep routes to the east sage. Did so successfully by ot controlling everything in the region but maintaining supremacy over the whole region . Taxes and monopolies on opium and salt. Promotion of products manipulation of tariffs to hep. Fundamental continuity of british informal and formal expansion throughout the. Argument against previous one: imperialism is a high stage of capitalism. Hobson and lenin: the 19th c was divided into periods of imperialism and periods of anti-imperialism imperialism : integrating new regions into expanding econ (maybe)
