POLI 227 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Monroe Doctrine, Indirect Rule, Piggy Bank
29 Mar 2017
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Set in place certain relationships and structures that had multigenerational effects. Even if they were part of larger empires. Most people grew up in a village and died there. traditional -> ways of doing things (even if they weren"t the most productive) stuck around for very long times. Europeans saw lots of resources in the americas (land, gold, etc. ) Conquest and looting came first and trading relationships came later. The vast bulk of colonial acquisition is occurring in the americas. Easy to sail there and societies are much weaker. First portuguese, then dutch (east indies), british (india), france (indochina) In order to protect trading routes + privileges, establishing ports + military outposts, grabbing land where u can. British and french push portuguese out and begin to acquire territory. Semi-official trading companies were granted full sovereignty over territories by parent state. Americas were missing workers (death of indigenous due to european diseases.
