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Hace 4 días · The Origins of New Imperialism. The British didn't take over all of Africa, but they did put a sporting effort into it. The Cape to Cairo railroad was similarly never realized, although after 1914 they did have a band of territory from Alexandria to Cape Town. The reasons behind “New Imperialism” were varied and disparate.
Hace 2 días · Anthropology and imperialism: Past, present, future. In 1968, during an intense period of anti-colonial struggles in Asia and Africa, Kathleen Gough famously asserted what is now largely taken for granted within the discipline: anthropology is a child of Western imperialism ( 1968 ). Since then, the discipline’s engagement with imperialism ...
Hace 2 días · A portrayal of New Imperialism and its effects on China. Stephen Howe has summarized his view on the beneficial effects of the colonial empires: At least some of the great modern empires – the British, French, Austro-Hungarian, Russian, and even the Ottoman – have virtues that have been too readily forgotten.
Hace 5 días · Burbank and Cooper heed this warning and focus very clearly and ably on the causes and processes of global empire building in this new book. They join a flurry of recent books linking empire, imperialism, and global or world history.
Hace 2 días · Background. The "Scramble for Africa" between 1870 and 1914 was a significant period of European imperialism in Africa that ended with almost all of Africa, and its natural resources, claimed as colonies by European powers, who raced to secure as much land as possible while avoiding conflict amongst themselves.
Hace 4 días · The Great Wars turned the U.S. into a global power, the 1944 Bretton Woods accepted the dollar hegemony, and the Truman Doctrine (which instigated the Cold War era to contain the Soviet influence) made the United States become a true superpower or only hyperpower in the world. President Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 had the objective of ...
