7.2 - Imperialism Theories and Examples
- American Empire
- assimilation
- seeks to transform the colonized country into a copy of the home country
- Happens in settler colonies often
- association
- keeps a distinction between the colonized and the colonizer
- British Empire
- Massive
- Maritime
- Many Colonies throughout Africa, India
- capitulations
- Agreements that exempted many foreigners from Ottoman law
- formal imperialism
- the colonizers take political control over the colonized
- French Empire
- informal imperialism
- economic influences to get special privileges and access to the country
- eg: Ottoman Empire
- land-based empires
- empires connected by land, not water
- Russia
- United States
- maritime empires
- empires when the conquered & colonized places are connected by water, not land
- Spanish and Portugese
- Dutch
- Battle of Omdurman (1898)
- In Sudan
- British had the Maxim gun, a powerful weapon
- 48 British killed
- ~18,000 Mahdi dead
- Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902)
- rhodes scholar
- worked to expand British power in Africa
- wanted to connect Cairo with South Africa in an "unbroken string of colonies"
- Made his fortune in African diamonds
- Russian Empire
- settler colonies
- when a significant portion of people from the home country migrate to the settler colony
- eg: most of the Americas, South Africa, New Zealand, Australia
- “White Man’s Burden”
- Poem by Rudyard Kipling
- Expresses the idea of imperial condescension
- The notion that empires were more "civilized" than the colonized nations