Appetite & Force: The Growth of Global Empires
1. Toward the Partition of Africa (& Asia) The formula for the new imperialism = colonialism + capitalist industrialism + nationalism European balance of power writ large The Crimean War (1854-56) The Suez Canal (1869)
The Suez Canal (1869)
2. Imperialism & Resistance in Africa The Partitioning of Africa: Preconditions The Scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference (1885) The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
Henry Morton Stanley, English explorer and agent for King Leopold of Belgium
Diamond Mines in South Africa
Cecil Rhodes spanning Africa
The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
3. Imperialism & Resistance in Asia The Spanish American War (1898) The Boxer Rebellion (1900) The First Sino-Japanese War (1894-95) The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) Japan annexes Korea, 1910
Pears’ Soap Ad: “The first step towards lightening The White Man’s Burden is through the virtues of cleanliness.”
Propaganda for U.S. control of Cuba (1898)
American suppression of Filipino independence movement after the U.S. “liberated” Filipinos from Spain (1899-1902)
Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908)
International troops suppressing Boxers, 1900
Victorious Japanese Navy in The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)
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