HISTORY 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: East India Company, Elmina Castle, Interracial Marriage
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What columb exchange did wasn"t just bring the americas into the convo (tw asia and eur etc), but made that conversation much more intense. Prehistory of us - utterly insig, completely atypical version of 17th century globalization. After saying the eng exp is atypical, we"ll start w/ that lol - contrast w/ sp to see how odd it is. Someone who invades + takes over; vs someone who plows/tills the land; soldiers/missionaries vs settlers/colonists. Sp acquire empire over ppl; eng acq empire over land and populate it with their own ppl. Doesn"t make the eng any less imperialist; just diff ideology behind imperialism. Review from last class: sp left syst intact that they found at lower lvl; lopped off its head, inserting their own leaders. Terrorized populatn w/ same techniques/infrastructures used by native rulers - similar forced labor to export silver, etc. Principal agent of sp colonizatn: sp state; govt operation. Normatv version of eng imperialism was totally diff.
