GPHY 229 Chapter Notes - Chapter wk8: Good Governance, Neocolonialism, Robert Louis Stevenson

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geography
• Course: GPHY 229
• Professor: George Lovell

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Adam smith condemned east india company: a(cid:271)ho(cid:396)(cid:396)ed the (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)(cid:455)(cid:859)s t(cid:396)adi(cid:374)g (cid:373)o(cid:374)opol(cid:455) Marx and others put the advanced capitalist state first, not the colonial world; site of bourgeois-proletariat struggle. Colonialism in colonial world would break down feudal system and bring capitalism; seen as progressive. Colonial rule typically had a bloody end. Colo(cid:374)ialis(cid:373)(cid:859)s (cid:373)oti(cid:448)es (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t dis(cid:272)losed o(cid:396)igi(cid:374)all(cid:455); selfish, (cid:272)apitalist goals. Also it (cid:396)e(cid:373)ai(cid:374)s a myth in countries where post-independence troubles arise; blame it on colonial history. The crusades were motivated by the highest religious purpose; spreading christianity was seen as worth dying and killing for. Brushes over the goal to acquire land and property; also allowed employment of the unemployed away from europe. First crusade quickly won jerusalem; lost the land and more crusades followed. Commitment of crusaders to acquiring wealth; international banking religious leaders undisclosed motives! 1491 christopher columbus asks for funding from queen isabella for his voyages.