DEVS 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gross National Happiness, Devs, Malaria
27 Sep 2018
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Complicated by prefixes (sub, post -, neo-) Large political body that rules over territories outside its original physical borders. Sometimes settler" colonies: australia, canada, south africa. Layers of hierarchy: language, religion, race. Later empires involved private companies to off-load costs: dutch and british east india companies. Europe"s control of the land mass of the world: 1800 55, 1878 67, 1914 85% Sense of cultural/racial superiority: white man"s burden . Intrinsic pressures for economic growth from emerging industrial capitalism in europe. 34-50 million africans were captured and enslaved. 17-25 million were sent to atlantic slave traders. 10-15 million reached the america"s or caribbean alive. 400 000-900 000 ended up in north america. Large # of europeans settles in some colonies: canada, south africa, kenya, argentina, etc. The colonists" often became anti-colonists": ex. Divide and conquer: reinforced existing inequalities and hierarchies, created new inequalities and hierarchies. Wiped out entire civilizations: disease, genocide.
