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Chapter 22
Imperialism And Colonialism, 1870-1914
Chapter Study Outline
Introduction
Britain, France, Egypt, and the Suez Canal
Technology, money, and politics
Western superiority
Imperialism
Definitions
The process of extending one state's control over another
Formal imperialism
Colonialism or direct control
Colonizing countries annexed territories outright
Established new governments
Informal imperialism
Conquering nations reached agreements with indigenous leaders and governed through them
Allowed weaker state to maintain its independence while reducing its sovereignty
Carving out zones of European sovereignty and privilege
Imperialist endeavors
1875-1902: Europeans took up 90 percent of Africa
1870-1900: small group of European states colonized one-quarter of the world's lands
Eighteenth-century losses
The British in the North American colonies
French Atlantic trade
Spanish and Portuguese in South America
Nineteenth-century imperialism
Appeared against the backdrop of industrialization, liberal revolutions, and the rise of nation-states
The need for raw materials
Bringing progress to the world
Imperialists sought to distance themselves from earlier histories of conquest
Colonial resistance and rebellion forced Europeans to develop new strategies of rule
The British granted self-government to Canada, Australia, and New Zealand
Nineteenth-century empires established carefully codified racial hierarchies
Guided more by "settlement and discipline" than independent entrepreneurial activity
The creation of new kinds of interaction between Europeans and indigenous peoples
The new imperialism and its causes
Economic arguments
A. Hobson (1858-1940), Imperialism (1902)
Imperialism was driven by a small group of financiers
International capitalists
Investors sought out secure investment opportunities in colonies
The manufacturing, military, and armaments interest
Lenin (1870-1924), Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism (1917)
Imperialism as an essential stage in the development of capitalism
The internal contradictions of capitalism produced imperialism
The overthrow of capitalism would check imperialism
London as the banker of the world
Demand for raw materials made colonization a necessary investment
Strategic and nationalist motives
International rivalries fueled the belief that national interests were at stake
The French supported imperialism as a means of restoring national honor
The British worried about German and French industrialization and losing world markets
The link between imperialism and nation building
The cultural dimension
David Livingston (1813-1873) and putting an end to the African slave trade
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and the "white man's burden"
Civilizing the barbaric and heathens
Imperial policy
Less a matter of long-range planning
More a matter of quick responses to improvised situations
Imperialism in South Asia
India and the British empire
The "jewel of the British Crown"
The British East India Company
Had its own military divided into European and Indian divisions
Held the right to collect taxes on land from Indian peasants
Held legal monopolies over trade in all goods (the most lucrative was opium)
Constituted a military and repressive government
Offered economic privileges to those who allied themselves with the British against others
British policy divided
One group wanted to Westernize India
Another thought it safer and more practical to defer to local culture
The Sepoy Rebellion (1857-1858)
Uprising began near Delhi
Social, economic, and political grievances
Indian peasants attacked law courts and burned tax rolls
A protest against debt and corruption
Hindu and Muslim leaders denounced Christian missionaries
The British response
Systematic campaign of repression
Rebel-supported towns and villages were destroyed
Defeat of the rebellion fired the imagination of the British public
After the mutiny: reorganizing the Indian empire
New strategies of British rule
East India Company was abolished
British raj governed directly
Military reorganization
Queen Victoria as empress of India
Reform of the civil service
Missionary activity subdued
India and Britain
India as Britain's largest export market
India provided Britain with highly trained engineers and bureaucrats
1.2 million Indian troops fought with the British in World War I
British indirect rule sought to create an Indian elite to serve British interests
Large social group of British-educated Indian civil servants and businessmen
Provided the leadership for an Indian nationalist movement
Imperialism in China
Europe and China
Forced trade agreements
Set up treaty ports
Established outposts of missionary activity
British aimed to improve terms of the China trade
The opium trade
A direct link between Britain, British India, and China
Opium one of the few products Europeans could sell in China
Northeast India as richest opium-growing area
A "narco-military empire"
Opium production was labor-intensive
A triangular trade
East India Company sold opium to British, Dutch, and Chinese shippers
Opium sent to Southeast Asia and China
Silver paid for opium was used to buy Chinese goods for the European market
China banned opium imports (1830s)
A collision course with British opium traders
The Opium Wars (1839-1842)
The first Opium War
Drugs not the main focus
The issue was sovereignty and economic status
European rights to trade
Treaty of Nanking (1843)
British trading privileges
Hong Kong
The second Opium War
Britain granted further rights
Other countries demand similar rights and economic opportunities
French, German, and Russian mining rights
Begin manufacturing with Chinese labor
The United States and the "open door"
Sino-Japanese War (1894-1895)
Forced China to concede trading privileges
The independence of Korea
The Taiping Rebellion (1850-1864)
Radical Christian rebels challenged the authority of the emperor
China's agricultural heartland was devastated
The Boxer Rebellion (1900)
The Boxers
Secret society of men trained in martial arts
Antiforeign and antimissionary
Attacked foreign engineers, destroyed railway lines, and marched on Beijing
The European response
Great powers drew together
Repression of the Boxers
The rebellion highlighted the vulnerability of European imperial power
The new imperialism in 1900
Asia is partitioned
Japan alone retains its independence
British: India, Burma, Malaya, Australia, and New Zealand
Dutch: Indonesia
French: Indochina
Problems
Struggle between great powers exacerbated nationalist feelings
The destabilizing effects of the new imperialism
Russian imperialism
Policy of annexation
Southern colonization
Georgia (1801)
Bessarabia, Turkestan, and Armenia
Brought Russia and Britain close to war, especially over Afghanistan
The "Great Game"
Toward the East
The Russo-Japanese War (1905)
Russian naval forces were humiliated
United States brokered the peace treaty
The French Empire and the Civilizing Mission
The French in Algeria
Algeria as a settler state
Utopian socialist communities
Exiled revolutionaries of 1848
Winegrowers
Not all settlers were French
Under the Third Republic (1870), Algeria was made a department of France
Gave French settlers full rights of republican citizenship
Consolidated privileges
Disenfranchised indigenous populations
Differentiated "good" Berbers and "bad" Arabs
After 1870: the "civilizing mission"
Reinforcing the purpose of the French republic and French prestige
Jules Ferry (1832-1893) argued for expansion into Indochina
French acquisitions
Tunisia (1881)
Northern and central Vietnam (1883)
Laos and Cambodia (1893)
Federation of French West Africa (1893)
Rationalizing the economic exploitation of the area
"Enhancing the value" of the region
Public programs served French interests only
The Scramble for Africa and the Congo
The Congo Free State
The 1870s
A new drive into central Africa the fertile valleys of the Congo River
European colonizers under the Belgian king, Leopold II (1835-1909, r. 1865-1909)
Herbert M. Stanley and his "scientific" journeys
International Association for the Exploration and Civilization of the Congo (1876)
Signed treaties with local elites
Opened the Congo to commercial exploitation (palm oil, rubber, diamonds)
Other colonizers reacted (especially Portugal)
The Treaty of Berlin (1884)
Chaired by Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898)
Established ground rules for a new phase of European expansion
Britain, France, and Germany joined forces to settle the issue
The Congo would be open to free trade and commerce
The Congo Free State
Actually run by Leopold's private company
Slave trade suppressed in favor of free labor
The Congo becomes a Belgian colony (1908)
The partition of Africa
Colonial powers increase their holdings in Africa (1880s)
Germany
Bismarck was a reluctant colonizer
Seized strategic locations (Cameroon and Tanzania)
France
Aimed to move eastward across the continent
Britain
Southern and eastern Africa
Cecil Rhodes (1853-1902)
Made a fortune from South African diamond mines (DeBeers)
Prime minister of Cape Colony (1890)
Personal goal was to build an African empire founded on diamonds
Carved out territories in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and Botswana
The "Cape-to-Cairo" railway
Making Britain self-sufficient
Imperial Culture
Images of empire
Images of empire were everywhere
Advertising
Museums displayed the products of empire
Music halls and imperial songs
Empire and identity
The "civilizing mission" of the French
Bringing progress to other lands
Women and empire
Theories of race
Arthur de Gobineau (1816-1882)
The Inequality of the Races (1853-1855)
Race as the master key to understanding the world's problems
The racial question overshadowed all others
Slavery proved the racial inferiority of the slave
Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1855-1927)
Making racial theory more scientific
Tied racial theories to Darwinism and Herbert Spencer
Races change (evolve) over time
Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Eugenics: the science of improving racial qualities
Selective breeding
Karl Pearson (1857-1936)
Systematic study of intelligence and genius
The rhetoric of progress, the civilizing mission, and race
Provided a rationale for imperial conquest
Critics
Hobson and Lenin criticized imperialism as an act of greed and antidemocratic arrogance
Joseph Conrad argued that imperialism signified deep problems
The Pan-African Congress (1900)
The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of race
Colonial cultures
Growth of Bombay, Calcutta, and Shanghai
Colonialism created new hybrid cultures
Annexed areas as laboratories for creating orderly and disciplined societies
Worry over preserving national traditions and identity
Should education be Westernized?
Fraternization with indigenous peoples might undermine European power
Sexual relations
Compromises about "acceptability"
Crisis of Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Europe in 1900
Crisis
Sharp tensions between Western nations
The expansion of European economic and military commitments to territories overseas
Fashoda (1898)
Britain and France faced one another for dominance of Africa
Ethiopia
Italy developed a small empire along the shores of the Red Sea (1880s to 1890s)
Annexed Eritrea and parts of Somalia
An expedition sent to conquer Ethiopia (1896)
The Ethiopians killed six thousand Italians at Adowa
South Africa: the Boer War
Afrikaners (Boers)Dutch and Swiss settlers who had arrived in the early nineteenth century
Troubled relationship with the British in South Africa
Afrikaners set up two free states: Transvaal and the Orange Free State
Afrikaners and British went to war (1899)
British army was completely unprepared for war
British government refused to compromise
The British eventually seized Pretoria
A guerrilla war dragged on for three years
British used concentration camps where Afrikaner citizens were rounded up
The Union of South AfricaBritish and Boers shared power
U.S. imperialism
Spanish-American War (1898)
Antecedents
War with Mexico in the 1840s
The conquest of new territories
Texas and California
Conflict with Spain
Spanish imperial authority face problems in the Caribbean and Pacific colonies
American press sided with the rebels
The explosion of the Maine in Havana
The United States stepped in to protect its economic interests
Spanish defeat undermined the Spanish monarchy
The annexation of Puerto Rico and protectorate over Cuba
Panama
U.S.-backed rebellion in 1903
Recognized Panama as a republic
The Panama Canal (1914)
Intervention in Hawaii and Santo Domingo
Renewed missionary activity
Conclusion
Rapid extension of formal European control
The West as a self-consciously imperial culture