The Building of Global Empires

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The Building of Global Empires

• NEO-COLONIALISM a.k.a.
• IMPERIALISM
• 1750-1914

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People

• Robert Clive
• Nabobs
• Cecil Rhodes
• James Cook
• Charles Cornwallis
• Rom Mohan Roy
• Sepoys
• Kamehameha
• Queen Victoria

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Places

• Kingdom of Mataram
• Natal
• Boer Republics
• Princely states
• Tropical dependencies
• White dominions
• Settler colonies
• Raj Sanskrit
• Presidencies

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Concepts Events

• White racial supremacy
• Great Mahele
• Nationalism
• Imperialism
• Hookas
• Shaka Zulu

• Isandhlwana
• Great Trek
• Boer War
• 1899-1902
• Plassey
• 1757

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Essential Questions

• What is imperialism why risk it?
• What are the justifications for imperialism?
• What is the impact of imperialism on the
  imperialists?
• What is the impact of imperialism on those
  dominated by the imperialists?
• Predict the impact on dominated nations in the
  future.

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What Is Imperialism?

• Economic political and domination
• Industrial nations over undeveloped nations

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What does this cartoon represent?
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Why Risk Imperialism?Motivations

• Exploitation of nations for
• the economic benefit of the
  dominating nation
• Mercantilism
• Gain resources and markets
• Military bases
• Religious diffusion gt
  missionary motives
• Cultural diffusion gt
  White Mans Burden

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How Achieved?

• GUNBOAT DIPLOMACY
  Military superiority
• Maxim gun gt machine gun
• Dollar Diplomacy
• Forced unequal treaties trade agreements
• Technological superiority
• railroads
• Communication advances
• telegraph

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British Imperialism in India

• IMPERIAL RULE
• Viceroy sets all policies
• confiscated land
• commercial crops
• tea cotton
• rails telegraph
• suppressed Indian language customs

• COMPANY RULE
• granted by monarch
• economic monopolies
• used Sepoys to keep order

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British Rule in Asia

• Great Game
• played chicken with Russia in Central Asia

• Conquered
• Burma gt 1880s
• Singapore gt 1824
• Malaya gt 1870s
• Egypt gt 1882
• Australia gt 1770
• New Zealand gt
• 1770s

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The Berlin Conference 1884-85
AFRICA

• 14 European nations carve up Africa
• African Self-determination
• Liberia Ethiopia

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Dissection of Africa
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Imperialists in Paradise!

• Europeans American dominate all of the Pacific
  Islands except Tonga
• Tonga will become a British Protectorate in 1900

• How?
• Spread of disease
• violent repression

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France In Asia

• FRENCH INDOCHINA
• Laos, Cambodia,
  Vietnam
• Country boundaries drawn
  to suit the French not the indigenous
  people
• Plantation economies set up with the French as
  the plantation owners, indigenous people the
  workers

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U.S. Imperialism

• Purchase /Annex Pacific
• Alaska gt 1867
• Hawaii gt 1875
• Spanish American War
• Imperialist War
• Philippines 1899
• Cuba 1899
• Puerto Rico 1899

• Monroe Doctrine
• Western hemisphere
• Sphere of influence
• Panama Canal
• gained by military intervention
• U.S. national interest
• Military
• Economic

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Japanese Imperialism

• Expansion
• Hokkaido Kurile Islands
• Okinawa Ryukyu
• Unequal treaties with Korea
• Force Korea into a situation that benefits Japan
  but not itself

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Japanese Imperialism

• Sino-Japanese War
• China cedes Korea / Taiwan
• Emboldens Japan for future conflict against China

• Russo-Japanese War
• Russia cedes interests in Korea/ Manchuria
• Emboldens Japan for future conflict against
  western nations.

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Sino-Japanese War

• War over Korea

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Russo-Japanese War
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Enduring Questions

• What are the moral and ethical questions that
  arise from Imperialism?
• How has imperialism had a negative impact on
  regions dominated?
• How has imperialism been a positive influence
  globally?