Part 1: Explain terms
Part 2: Short Questions
The Making of the Third World
How was Europe able to expand its empire and dominate “non-Europe”? Europe: decentralized; non-Europe: centralized
Rise of capitalism
Different periods of colonization
Caribbean/Americas – 1550s >
India and rest of Asia – 1750 >
Africa – 1884 (Berlin Conference)
The emergence of mercantilism (= commercialism - 李嘉誠主義) (“buy cheap, sell dear”)
Break from mercantilism - rise of industrial capitalism >1760
Defining capitalism… system of social relations that harnesses (吊帶lol from google translate) the creativity and productive forces of society primarily for private gain. It introduced wage labour but workers have no claim over the product of their own labour (Production goods). (習近平主義)
Organic versus imposed development in the colony or the imposition of:
an enclave (飛地) economy ( High level of foreign investments within regions - http://www.economicpoint.com/enclave-economy ) export-orientation dependency on the metropolis and the loss of the internal market imposition of the CDL
Impact of European colonization on Europe itself: Age of Revolution
Conflict between Peninsulares (European born) and Creoles (Europeans born in the colonies)
American war of independence 1775 - 1782
Creole Spanish and Portuguese sought independence (1810 - 1825)
Age of Revolution in Europe - rise of nationalism
The independence movements in the Americas and the idea of nation and nationalism U.S. - Monroe Doctrine, 1823: establishes U.S. power in the Americas De-colonisation: Creation of the Third World
Latin America, Late - 1820s and >
Asia, post - world war II (1945) onwards
Africa, post - 1945 and > Third world originally signified a common polities that was derived from a common understanding of colonial quality
I,e, condition of underdevelopment usually associated with the Third World "Development" in the Third World and the "idea of progress"
Creation of new instruments of