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... D: 0033057
COURSE TITLE: EUROPE AND THE WIDER WORLD: IMPERIALISM AND DECOLONISATION.
TUTORS NAME: ALONA T
ESSAY TITLE: “A VARIETY OF EXPLAINATIONS HAVE BEEN PUT FORWARD FOR THE NEW IMPERIALISM OF THE LATE 19TH CENTURY EUROPE; ECONOMIC, POLITICAL, PHYSOLOGICAL.
IDENTIFY AND ASSESS THOSE WHICH YOU THINK ARE THE KEY ONES”
EUROPEAN EXPANSION OVERSEAS WAS NOT UNHEARD OF BY THE END OF
THE LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY. HOWEVER, DURING THE LAST
QUATHER OF THE CENTURY, IT TOOK ON A NEW MEANING AND
IMPERIALISM AS IT BECAME KNOWN BECAME AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT
IN EUROPEAN POLITICS. ... THIS PERIOD OF
EUROPEAN EXPANSION HAS BEEN ATTRIBUTED TO NUMEROUS
EXPLAINATIONS, NOT LEAST: ECONOMIC, POLITICAL AND
PSYCHOLOGICAL INFLUENCES. ...
AMONG THOSE MOTIVES WAS ECONOMIC MOTIVATION,
HOBSON SAW IMPERIALISM AS “PRIMARILY A STRUGGLE FOR
PROFITABLE MARKETS OF INVESTMENT” THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT THE
ECONOMY IN GENERAL, BANKS AND ENTREPRENEURS PLAYED A
LEADING ROLE IN IMPERIALIST POLITICS. ... THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC CRISIS, WHICH
BEGAN IN THE 1870’s CONTRIBUTED TO THE OIRGIN OF IMPERIALISM, BY
STIMULATING THE IMAGINATION OF THOSE CAUGHT UP IN IT, TO FIND
WAYS OF ESCAPING FROM A PRECARIOUS SITUATION. IMPERIALISM
SIGNIFIED INCREASED EXPORTS AND FOREIGN INVESTMENT, WHICH WAS
HOPED WOULD INSPIRE INCREASED CONFIDENCE IN THE HOME
ECONOMY. ... EVERY INSTINCT OF THE
BUSINESSMEN SEEMED TO BE TO GRAP THEIR MARKETS AND SOURCES OF
RAW MATERIALS WHILE THEY COULD, IMPERIALISM WAS THEN SEEN AS
A MEANS OF OVERCOMING THE DEPRESSION, NOT ONLY BY THE
BUSINESSMEN BUT ALSO BY THE PUBLIC AT LARGE. ... FRANCE, WHILST HAVING
AMASSED THE SECOND LARGEST EMPIRE IN THE WORLD, DID NOT SEE
IMPERIALISM IN PURELY ECONOMIC TERMS. ... THERE ARE MANY VIEWS
REGARDING ECONOMIC EXPLAINATIONS FOR IMPERIALISM. LENIN SAW
IMPERIALISM AS “THE INEVITABLE RESULT OF THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM AND
AN IMPORTANT SYMPTOM OF ITS ULTIMATE AND INESCAPABLE DECAY”
ROBSON AND GALLACHER EXPLAINED THE ECONOMIC DIMENSION TO
IMPERIALISM AS
“AN EXPLAINATION OF EUROPEAN RULE IN TROPICAL AFRICA, THE THEORY OF ECONOMIC IMPERIALISM, PUTS THE TRADE BEFORE
THE FLAG, THE CAPITAL BEFORE THE CONQUEST AND THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE”
GERMAN VICTORY IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR HAD SERIOUSLY CHANGED
THE EUROPEAN POLITICAL LANDSCAPE. A UNIFIED GERMANY, CAME TO THE
FORE OF EUROPEAN AFFAIRS, OF WHICH IMPERIALISM WAS TO BECOME ONE. ... K FIELDHOUSE SAW THE NEW
IMPERIALISM AS A NATURAL OUTCOME OF THE MILITANT NATIONALISM
WHICH HAD COME TO DOMINATE EUROPE AFTER THE VICTORY OF
BISMARCKS “BLOOD AND IRON” POLICY IN THE FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR.
Approximate Word count = 1862
Approximate Pages = 7.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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