WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? The extension of control or authority over foreign areas – controlling the politics and/or economy of another place/nation/people – in order to acquire or maintain an empire The policy of a country in maintaining colonies and dominance over
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WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? The extension of control or authority over foreign areas
WHAT IS IMPERIALISM? The extension of control or authority over foreign areas – controlling the politics and/or economy of another place/nation/people – in order to acquire or maintain an empire The policy of a country in maintaining colonies and dominance over remote lands and peoples. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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WHAT IS IMPERIALISM?The extension of control or authorityover foreign areas
– controlling the politics and/or economy of another place/nation/people– in order to acquire or maintain an empire
The policy of a country in maintainingcolonies and dominance over remotelands and peoples.• Direct territorial control• Indirect control
Causes of “New” Imperialism• ECONOMIC motives
• PRESTIGE and NATIONALISM
• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION and its technological advances
• SOCIAL DARWINISM
• WHITE MAN’S BURDEN
• MISSIONARY (RELIGIOUS) ZEAL
Mercantilism
• A way of routing trade to the benefit of the colonizers
• Raw materials from the colony to the mother country
• Finished goods from the mother country to the colony.
Colonial Trade Routes, 1700s-1800s
British Mercantilism
Economic Causes
• Agricultural Revolution causes population growth
• The Industrial Revolution created an insatiable demand– for raw materials!
– and new markets!
Economic Motives:Growth of Industry throughout Europe
Nationalism: Power and Prestige
• European nations wanted to demonstrate their power and prestige to the world.
• Tremendous competition among European nations to grab what they can
Balance of Power: British Empire, 1914
Balance of Power: French Empire, 1914
Balance of Power: East Asia
Balance of Power: East Asia, 1914
Balance of Power: Africa, 1886
Africa, 1914
White Man’s Burden
• The “West”’s sense of superiority
• Made them feelobligated to “civilize the heathen savages” they encountered.
White Man’s Burden: Paternalistic Racism as a motive for Imperialism
The White Man's BurdenBy Rudyard KiplingMcClure's Magazine 12 (Feb. 1899).
Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--
Go, bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;
To wait, in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught sullen peoples,Half devil and half child.
The Tools of ImperialismTechnological developments
at mid-century– modern firearms– steamships– railroads– anti-malarial quinine– telegraph
• much safer for Europeans to live and travel in the tropics
• easier to attack the indigenous people there.
“What the breechloader,the machine gun, thesteamboat andsteamship, and quinineand other innovationsdid was to lower thecost, in both financialand human terms, ofpenetrating,conquering, andexploiting newterritories.”