SOSC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Unilateral Declaration Of Egyptian Independence, Pax Britannica, Neocolonialism
13 Oct 2018
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Week 4 lecture outline - 1 october 2018. Readings: williams, empire as a way of life , greene, how it began ; kloby, the legacy of. Colonialism ; colonialism in africa, 1914 (map); wainaina, how to write about africa. Recommended films: king leopold"s ghost; life and debt. Key terms: empire, colonialism, imperialism, contradiction of capitalism (91 greene); commons, Enclosure acts (1760-1810) (92); capital, industrialization, unequal trade, exploitation, appropriation, forced labour, commons, pax britannica (1815-1914); potato famine; neocolonialism; subsistence, cash crops. Contradiction of capitalism: expand production faster than the market can absorb it. Colonialism vs. imperialism: while imperialism operates from the center, is a state policy and is developed for ideological as well as financial reasons, colonialism is the development for settlement or commercial intentions. Us constitution over the original, independent states of america. Forcible subjugation of formerly independent peoples by external power (england ireland). (williams).
