INTD 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Canadian Indian Residential School System, Social Darwinism, Profit Motive
3 Nov 2015
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Colonialism and nation states involvement in development today. What were the motives for imperial expansion of the 15th and 16th centuries: Political - religious, born of competitive tension with muslim neighbors. Economic - owing to ambitious europeans desire for more direct access to goods much sought after in europe"s growing towns and cities, now beginning to recover from the ravages of the black death. New transformation with industrial revolution at the start of the 20th century: (pg. Expansion undertaken in search of new investment opportunities and consumers. British and dutch empires use of private actors for use of their conquests and colonial projects. Attention must be paid to the role of private companies (chartered. Speed to which this phase of colonization proceeded. First phase of imperial conquests there are projects that lasts decades and centuries -- the process of colonization is not really over if you ask some people here in north america.
