Day 112 - 19th Century Imperialism (cont.)
Today in WHAP we continued out notes on 19th Century Imperialism.
We continued where we left off yesterday with the two types of imperialism: Direct and Indirect. First, direct imperialism is essentially when the Europeans would create a colony, and control the territory by conquering it. In contrast, indirect imperialism is when the Europeans would rule through proxies, taking advantage of the local leaders and nobility and having them rule under the Europeans. Direct rule wasn't really practiced until after the Sepoy mutiny, which was when the native soldiers turned against their European rulers in their country, while the Europeans had no army of their own in said country.
There are three main types of colonies in the 19th century, and they are tropical, settlement, and mixed. Tropical colonies contain a small amount of Europeans while settlement colonies contain majorities of Europeans. In these settlement colonies, the Europeans would kill nearly all the native whether it be inadvertently by disease or just straight up fighting and killing them. Then, mixed colonies had large population of both European and native population. In this environment, there was much conflict over the racial tension present.
The final thing we talked about in class today would be Colonial economies. The first economy is the economy of coercion. In this economy, labor was demanded and essentially was serfdom/slavery. In an economy of cash crop agriculture, the economy specialized in producing cash crops sold on the global market, like rice. In economies of wage labor, they involve heavy migrations of people from one country to another. These migrants are then used for extremely cheap laborers, which in some ways is still very much in practice in the US today.
During this time, women were left with most of the subsistence work. Women were gaining some independence at this time, but then this movement of a sort was stalled by accusations of witchcraft, which slowed down their path to more independence. Still, at this time they could potentially trade a little, and use that to escape potentially abusive husbands/fathers.
With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
We continued where we left off yesterday with the two types of imperialism: Direct and Indirect. First, direct imperialism is essentially when the Europeans would create a colony, and control the territory by conquering it. In contrast, indirect imperialism is when the Europeans would rule through proxies, taking advantage of the local leaders and nobility and having them rule under the Europeans. Direct rule wasn't really practiced until after the Sepoy mutiny, which was when the native soldiers turned against their European rulers in their country, while the Europeans had no army of their own in said country.
There are three main types of colonies in the 19th century, and they are tropical, settlement, and mixed. Tropical colonies contain a small amount of Europeans while settlement colonies contain majorities of Europeans. In these settlement colonies, the Europeans would kill nearly all the native whether it be inadvertently by disease or just straight up fighting and killing them. Then, mixed colonies had large population of both European and native population. In this environment, there was much conflict over the racial tension present.
The final thing we talked about in class today would be Colonial economies. The first economy is the economy of coercion. In this economy, labor was demanded and essentially was serfdom/slavery. In an economy of cash crop agriculture, the economy specialized in producing cash crops sold on the global market, like rice. In economies of wage labor, they involve heavy migrations of people from one country to another. These migrants are then used for extremely cheap laborers, which in some ways is still very much in practice in the US today.
During this time, women were left with most of the subsistence work. Women were gaining some independence at this time, but then this movement of a sort was stalled by accusations of witchcraft, which slowed down their path to more independence. Still, at this time they could potentially trade a little, and use that to escape potentially abusive husbands/fathers.
With that, the bell rang and we were dismissed. Until Tomorrow!
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