GGR240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Entrust, Great Lakes Region, Grid Plan
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Imperialism: type of geopolitical relationship: the aggressive encroachment of one people upon the territory of another, resulting in the subjugation of the latter people to alien rule. Donald meinig: subjugation = colonization, building of an empire through creation of colonies, almost all of north america was turned into an imperial space by: Bridging languages (attempt to learn local and also teach them at the same time) Security (military: all operating at different scales. Relationship between local level and bigger things like plants/maps. Imperial practices (converting, subduing, creating a map: this is a local and distant activity at the same time, produced effects of power that native people could not in uence. E. g. producing a map in london showing claims of land, the natives have no way to change that process: re-territorilization. Slaves, wage labourers (serf-like: requires some sort of local support.
