Appetite & Force: The Growth of Global Empires 1. Toward the - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Appetite & Force: The Growth of Global Empires 1. Toward the - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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
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)
- 1. Toward the Partition of Africa (& Asia)
The Suez Canal (1869)
The Partitioning of Africa: Preconditions The Scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference (1885) The Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902)
- 2. Imperialism & Resistance in Africa
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)
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
- 3. Imperialism & Resistance in Asia
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
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independence movement after the U.S. “liberated” Filipinos from Spain (1899-1902)
(1835-1908)
Empress Dowager Cixi
International troops suppressing Boxers, 1900
Victorious Japanese Navy in The Russo-Japanese War (1904-05)