HIUS 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fee Simple, Physical Abuse, History Of The British Army
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Hius 103 lecture 4 migrant labor. International ports drew labor recruiters from all over the world: 1852 recruited to work in hawaii. British colonialism in india: british annexed punjab region 1849, one of the last provinces to fall under british imperial control, british took control for development of large-scale agricultural plantations. Subsistence -> cash-crop: british taxing for development of institutions and transportation, taxes so high that many were forced to sell their lands, to lost their properties after taking out mortgages on their properties. Some joined the british colonial army and traveled the world: whatever profits they made had to be paid to landowner, and they kept whatever was left. Introduction of commercial agriculture devastates sw agricultural region (hiroshima: 1885-1908 130k japanese from this region migrated to the west, majority of them went to hawaii, could(cid:374)(cid:859)t afford ta(cid:454)es, like i(cid:374) pu(cid:374)ja(cid:271) Imperialism -> economic disruption -> unsettled populations -> migration.
