SOCI 254 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: New Imperialism, Cultural Genocide, Economic Nationalism
8 May 2017
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Introduction of new tension sound class, race, and gender that shaped postcolonial societies. Elaboration of ideologies justifying colonial rule including racism and notions of backwardness. Responses by colonial subjects from ethnic divisions to civil war to mass political mobilization. Resulted in economic, political, social, and psychological subjugation. New imperialism happened in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Went from 10% colonized in africa in 1870 to 90% by 1914. Scramble for africa involved european powers taking pieces of africa. Within a nation rural areas supplied materials for urban area to produce finished goods from. European nations get primary products from colonies and made manufactured goods from them, sending the finished products back to colonial markets. Also exported sustainability because of export focused monoculture (cash crops) Had to do with the commercialization of resource extraction and agriculture. Pre colonial societies paid heed to the environment while colonizers only limited to make money.
