Economic factors were a chief motivation for colonization to European countries. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany believed conquering primitive areas would help build up industry and agriculture. He also thought it could help build up a fleet of ships and is quoted “Our future lies upon the water.” (doc 1). Other leaders such as Jules Ferry of France saw these places as shelters, ports for defense, and provisioning (doc3). John Hobson, an English economist, saw imperialism as inevitable, for powers of production outpace consumption resulting in more profit for the mother country (doc 2).
Gov.2301.100 Assignment #1 Assigned Reading: Antifederalist paper=Brutus I October 18, 1787 Purpose of Assignment: There are two main goals for this assignment. 1.Familirize yourself with the anti-‐federalist arguments. 2. Be able to clearly comprehend and analyze both the federalist and anti-‐federalist perspective on the new Constitution. Undertaking the assignment: Your task is to first, read the anti-‐federalist paper written by ‘Brutus’.
In both cases, the slave trade worked to undermine the legitimacy of political institutions and sustain large gulfs between the interests of the ruling classes and those of the common people. Although the trans-Atlantic slave trade was a global system that involved several continents, the trade as a whole was controlled by European middlemen. As Walter Rodney wrote, "Only the European capitalist had such world-wide power, and they used Africans for their own purposes. "[1] However, views differ as to the causes and consequences of the African slave trade in Europe. Eric Williams' economic reductionist argument presented in his 1944 Capitalism and Slavery supported the theory that the move toward African enslaved labour in the Americas was entirely a matter of economic expedience that helped catapult Western Europe to the forefront of a new global capitalist economy.
In his Discourse on the Origin of Inequality, Rousseau states that the origin of inequality was the foundation of a political system that gave “new forces to the rich,” and thus, “destroyed natural liberty, [and] established forever the law of property and of inequality” (Rousseau 70). According to Rousseau, the moment at which his ironically-termed “civil society” of inequality began to form was the moment his romanticized natural man claimed a plot of land for his exclusive use or possession (Rousseau 60). Consequently, civil man
Therefore, he tried to regain the support of liberals through his extraordinary success in foreign affairs. (James Graham). “Exalt his self-esteem towards foreigners and the Prussian forgets whatever bothers him about conditions at home” Otto von Bismarck, 1858. This quote, clearly depicts Bismarck’s policy. By launching successful wars over other European countries and having the German states joining these wars , he managed to increase nationalistic feelings among people who now saw him as a national hero instead of a liberty oppressor.
Another significant intellectual idealist with whom his ideas was evident in the declaration of France and greatly influenced the French Revolution was Rousseau. His idea of the social contract and general will of the people can be found in number six of the declaration of France . This idea was so paramount because it said the government must obey the general will of the people and takes general will over individual rights. It allows for government to be created for a general will rather than divine right. The French Revolution expanded mass participation for the general will of the people in political life and radicalized the democratic tradition which was inherited from the English and American experiences
The Meiji Restoration of 1868 began Japan’s modern age. The irony was that this was a rebellion anti-Western in nature, but they must embrace the West to survive or complete. The revolution of this was that Meiji’s government radically alters in politics, economics, and social. 21. The Jacobins were a political organization of the French Revolution.
THE APARTHEID: A SOCIAL AND POLITICAL INJUSTICE South Africa is a country afflicted by a past of enforced racism and separation of its multi-racial community. The Europeans of Great Britain invaded the country and imposed a political system known as ‘Apartheid’. This system severely restricted the rights and lifestyle of the non-white inhabitants of the country forcing them to live entirely in separation. This system of imposed racial ideas although now ended, has left an imprint on the thoughts and culture of African descendants worldwide. To be discussed are the affects that this sociopolitical system had on the indigenous peoples of South Africa, as well as the emergence of African independence across the political landscape.
Name: James Allam Ejidio Course: African History CHANGES AND FACTORS THAT OCCURRED AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF EUROPEANS IN AFRICA Introduction From the 17th through the 20th centuries, Europeans powers scrambled to divide Africa among themselves in a monumentous colonial movement that left lasting impressions and far-reaching consequences for Africa and the international political stage. Five major impacts of colonialism in Africa were Combat against other African, long lasting racial oppression, widespread poverty, Underdevelopment and Distortion of the traditional organization of African life. Combat against other Africans Most Europeans
In other words, as Graebner cleverly defines it: a fundamental tenden[cy] toward[s] [a policy of] overcommitment” (16). Meaning that essentially the opinion of the American public in this case was being driven either by an emotional response to the French rebellion, which they perceived as similar to America’s “republican and revolutionary zeal,” or the urgency to return the in-kind the aid for the obtainment of independence of which they had perceived as the French motivations behind involvement in the American Revolutionary War