POLS 2080 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sinocentrism, Penal Colony, Social Darwinism
22 Dec 2016
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Colonialism: the territorial conquest, occupation and direct control of one country by another. Imperialism: political and economic system in which one state controls the political and economic life of other societies either directly or indirectly. Neo-colonialism: the perpetuation of exploitative economic relationships between a developed and a developing country, despite the formal political independence of the latter. The spanish and portuguese: vast colonial empire held for centuries, drivers: gold, silver, slave trade, spices, sugar, rum, missionaries. Exercised direct control, left profound cultural and linguistic legacy. The dutch: controlled territories in north america, southeast asia, africa and the caribbean. Still part of the kingdom of the netherlands: aruba, cura ao, saint maarten. The french: driven by resource extraction, slave trade and christian missions. First colonial empire: north and south america, caribbean, west africa, india. First empire (1600 -1780s: north america, drivers: religious freedom, setters, trading companies, raw materials.
