HIST 3775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Trading Post, Wicket-Keeper, Taiping Rebellion
10 Feb 2016
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Readings: hsiang-lin, hk in cultural interchange: luk, religion in hk (handout) First decades of the colonial city of hong kong (ctd) City was founded by the british, hk exist b/c britain. Colonialism: gov of territory & pop by outsiders for the benefit of the metropole. Classic ex of securing markets for metropolitan industrialization (britain in. India: benefit of raw material (food for britain at the expense of staving, monopoly of merchandise trade in india. Other metropolitan benefits: exotic products, land & resources, jobs, strategic. On coat of arms: beaver, moose, maple, union jack: hk airport considered british property planes landing determines by. To minimize cost, maximize profits -> min gov services, personnel , armed forces. Reliance on myths to cultivate habits of obedience. Malayan workers), tax farming (given a target for a year you determine how must you take from people: imported labour to supplement/bypass natives.
