Last Week Refresher What 3 main factors caused peasants in England to leave their

homes and enter the factories during the Industrial Revolution?

Last Week Refresher “By pursuing his own interests he frequently

promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it. I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good”

Adam Smith – Wealth of Nations•Economic liberalism•Laissez-faire •Individualism

Last Week Refresher “Modern industry has converted the little workshop of

the patriarchal master into the great factory of the industrial capitalist. Masses of laborers, crowded into the factory, are organized like soldiers…they are daily and hourly enslaved by the machine, by the overlooker, and above all, by the individual bourgeois manufacturer himself.

Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels – Communist Manifesto•Class struggle•Communism •End of Private Property•Proletariat Revolution

Industrialization:• Rapid industrialization in the global north

required:

• 1. natural resources that could not be found at home such as: rubber, tin, tea, copper, cocoa, coffee, and petroleum (to name only a few).

• 2. The escalation in the capitalist mode of production also sought out new markets for the sale of commodities, (textiles for example).

Industrial capitalism included a mastery over technology

Weapons

Transportation

Locomotive Steamship

Communications

Undersea Cables

Imperialism

Domination over subject lands through formal and informal practices of domination, led by economic, political, and ideological motives.

Various forms of New Imperialism Settler Colonies

Direct Rule

Informal Rule (also known as spheres of influence)

Open Door Policy

Settler Colonies usually focused on the acquisition of land and included systematic eradication or displacement of indigenous peoples (both through policy and disease).

Aborigines in Queensland, Australia

Direct Rule or Formal Imperialism:

The British Raj in India

Informal Imperialism (Spheres of Influence)

Colonialism

The settlement of lands/nations by colonist that transform the political, social, economic, and cultural structures of Indigenous societies through land theft, warfare, and genocide.

Social Darwinism was invented by Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

Used the theory of evolution to explain differences between the weak and the strong.

Argued that successful races had competed better in the natural world and therefore had attained a higher state in natural hierarchy.

Became a justification for imperial dominion which, under the reasoning of Social Darwinism seemed both natural and inevitable.

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