Thursday, April 20, 2017

Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa

Industry and Empire

  • Periodically produced more manufactured goods then needed 
  • Exporting 60% of it own cotton cloth production
  • imperialism solved the class conflicts 
  • Mass Nationalism 
  • Imperialism, war and aggression seemed natural and progressive 
A Second Wave of European Conquests 
  • Second phase of European Colonial Conquests 
  • countless wars of conquest
  • for India and Indonesia, colonial conquest grew out of interaction with Europe 
  • "Scramble of Africa" pitted half a dozen European powers against each other 
Believing and Belonging: Identity and Cultural Change in the Colonial era 
  • Education obtained through missionary or government schools 
  • religion provided the basis for new or transformed identities 
  • Ordinary people alike forged new ways of belonging as they confronted colonial life

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