Imperialism in S.E. Asia

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Imperialism in S.E. Asia
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• Attraction of S.E. Asia?
• STRATEGIC LOCATION
• Tropical ag., minerals

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I. Euro. Powers Invade the Pac. Rim

• Early 1700s Dutch East India Co. (Indonesia)
• Plantation ag.
• Sugar cane, coffee, cocoa, rubber, coconuts,
  bananas, pineapples

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A. Dutch Expand

• Dutch E. India Co. (1602) protect Dutch trading
  interests in Indian Ocean
• Malacca Java
• Dutch East Indies
• Plantation ag.

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B. Brit. Successes

• By 1886 Brits. took Burma
• 1819 est. city at Singapore
• Guards entrance to Str. of Malacca
• Colonies in Malaysia (tin rubber)

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C. French Gains

• Eastern S.E. Asia internal instability
• 1840s 7 Fr. missionaries killed in Vietnam
• Emperor Napoleon III ordered
• invasion
• French Indochina
• Under Fr. 4X rice production
• EXPORTED

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D. Colonial Impact

• Colonization of S.E. Asia mixed results
• Economies grew (cash crops)
• Modernization (Euros benefited most)
• BUT, mass migration of people into S.E. Asia to
  work plantations mines
• Led to conflict

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II. Siam Remains Independent

• Kingdom of Siam was better organized
• Modernized under King Monghut son Chulalongkorn
  
• As the times and the course of things in our
  country have changed, it is essential to promote
  the advancement of all our academic and technical
  knowledge and to prevent it from succumbing to
  competition from the outside. In order to achieve
  this, it is imperative to make haste in education
  so that knowledge and ability will increase.
• Siam started schools, reformed legal system,
  reorganized govt.