1. Global Links and Imperialism
Chapter 24
Global Links and Imperialism
By the end of the 1800s, Europe controlled more than 80% of the world’s surface!

3. Economic Motives
Primary motives: natural resources, new markets and cheap labor
Natural resources: (cash crops) cotton, copper, rubber, tea, sugar, palm oil and coffee
New Markets: sale of manufactured goods
Labor: used cheap labor for large scale projects – railroads or telegraph lines

4. Economic Motives Agriculture
Colonies were turned into export economies – goods were created to be exported to colonial powers
Colonized nation was forced to produce only cash crop and not other agricultural products
Monocultures: (specially in Africa) land fertility declined
India: British mass production put cotton textile artisans out of work and they were left only the production of only raw cotton (factory finished products sold back to Indian markets at inflated prices
China: Opium Wars

5. Economic Motives Railways & Labor
Transportation systems: outward focused, not for internal transportation
India and Africa: all start at the center and lead to the coast (transport of raw materials)
Indentured laborers: from India, China and Japan (China Towns)
Australia: Penal colony by Great Britain in late 1700s (convicts from England, Scotland, Ireland, India and other British colonies)
Australia: 50,000 Chinese during gold rush in 1851
White Australia: restricted immigration from non whites

6. Political
Europe: revolutions, nationalism and nation-states characterized the 1800s
Nation states asserted power through increasing number of colonies
Great Britain, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Portugal and the Netherlands
Japan: incursions into Korea (lead to Sino Japanese War ) where Japan won and took control over Korea and Taiwan

7. Ideological
Phrenologists: people who studies skull sizes and shapes claimed that Africans, Indigenous Americans and Asians has smaller skulls and this indicated their sub-development
Social Darwinism: survival of the fittest – who was on top is because they were “fitter”
Christian Missionaries: some accused of being supporters of imperialism

8. India By the end of 1700s, England controlled most of India
Mughal empire was weak and England recruited Indians to join the British colonial army (sepoys)
Sepoy Mutiny (1857 in Northern India) erupted among soldiers who believed their rifle cartridges had been greased with the fat of cows and pigs
British fought and stopped the rebellion and the result was more control of the Indian government
From 1858 to 1947 Britain had control of India and the Raj was the puppet of the empire

9. Africa Europe imported manufactured goods: guns, alcohol and others
Exported natural resources: palm oil, gold and ivory
France started by seizing Algeria in 1830
Belgium (under King Leopold II) took control of the Congo, he owned the colonies personally – terrible working conditions for workers harvesting ivory and rubber
Suez Canal: built by French company with Egyptian workers: corvee laborers (unpaid workers)

10. Africa
Berlin Conference : European powers met to “set rules” for European expansion in Africa
Europeans set up artificial boundaries that created ethnic conflicts
South Africa: Dutch citizens had lived there since 1600s, British came over in early 1800s and Afrikaans moved East of the Cape Cod colony they had established
Xhosa’s Cattle Killing Movement – famine
British force Afrikaners and other Africans from their lands into concentration camps divided by race

11. China
Opium Wars
Spheres of Influence: multiple nation-states had exclusive trading rights and access to natural resources in their particular regions

12. South Asia
Dutch East India Company (VOC) took control of “Spice Islands,” present day Indonesia
When the VOC went bankrupt, they still controlled the area as a colony, forcing them to produce cash crops and eliminating subsistence agriculture of rice
By 1890s, France controlled Cambodia, Laos and all of Vietnam, also forced to produce cash crops
Only area that escaped imperialism was Siam (Thailand) by fortifying their government structure and investing in infrastructure