HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Marine Chronometer, Tonic Water, Extraterritoriality
Document Summary
World encounters european ideas, institutions, and industries by force and by choice. Non-europeans embrace, resist, or reject european ideas, products, and institutions. Provided new technologies used in empire-building- in governing and in fighting. Created new demands and justifications for european colonization. Created some of the ideas used to oppose european colonization. Great britain ( the sun never sets on the british empire ) Economic imperialism (informal)- possible to have w/o political. Political imperialism (formal)- usually has economic going on in background. Countries wanted to do business with britain because they dominated economics, were forced to participate in free trade if they wanted to do business with britain. Empire: informally if possible, and formally if necessary. Cause: british opium trade to china and china"s attempt to outlaw this trade. (china began losing money because of opium trade, and large numbers of military were addicted to opium, demoralized country, portrayed them as weak)
