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| large, coposite, multi-ethnic or multinational political unit, usually created by conquest and divided between a dominat centre, (core) and subordinate, sometimes far distant, peripheries |
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| -process by which one state, the superior military strength and more advanced technology imposes its control over the land, resources, and population of a less developed region |
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| common denominators of empires |
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-large
-core/periphery: relationship of power between different parts of world
-conquest
-mixture of direct and indirect rule
-cultural diversity
-mass migrations |
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-trade
-economic exploitation
-no settlement of Europeans in colonies
-no direct rule |
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-direct rule of distant lands
-full conquest
-European settlement in colonies
-"civilizing mission" |
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| modern European colonial empires |
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-special kinds of imperial systems
-special because sea born empires
-intertwined with ideas about'race' |
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| European imperialism accelerated until it reached its peak in the 1800's |
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| three factors drove European imperialist expansion in this period |
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-industrial revolution
-national competition for power
-development of scientific racism |
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| European imperial powers ruled over 80% of the worlds land |
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| principles of European imperialism |
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-profitability
-national power
-"civilizing mission" |
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| colonies should be useful to the metropole "mother country" |
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| colonies should strenthen the colonizing European nations |
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| colonizers should educate, "civilize," be colonized |
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| people put on display, results was to create invisible barriers between us and them |
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| etific theories of evolution and natural selection |
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| -lent support to European projects of imperial conquest--ideas about hierarchy of races--justified superiority of European power and culture |
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| to produce knowledge about others is to dominate them |
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| intermediate species between humans and animals--25,000 performances, huge backside |
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-scientific study of the people from the orien (arab world)
-orientalism western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient |
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| knowledge and power in age of European imperialism |
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| producing knowledge about colonized people esential part of dominating them--not just military but cultural power--power to determine how other is represented and perceived |
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| three factors that destablished European Imperialism |
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-industrilization
-nationalism
-paradoxes of imperialism itself |
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| resistance to imperialism (imperial wars in the late 19th century) |
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| everything contains within itself the element that will destory it |
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| everything contains within itself the element that will destory it |
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| second industrial revolution |
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-late 19th century
-products available to poorer people too
-more varied diets and food supplies
-advances in medical science |
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-unifying force
-but can be dividing power
-each group wants own nation |
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| Paradoxes of European Imperialism |
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| by beggining of 20th century |
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| -global dominace was being increasinly challenged, both by colonial resistance to imperial rule and by struggles betwen nations themselves |
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