Question: What do Rhodes‚ Roosevelt‚ Kipling‚ and Sarmiento share in their vision of white men’s role in civilizing the world? Week 1 Reading Response In the assigned readings‚ Rhodes‚ Roosevelt‚ Kipling‚ and Sarmiento advocate the expansion of civilization to be carried out by white men. The authors begin their arguments with the uncivilized living conditions in the late 1800’s‚ moving on to benefits of the English rule upon other nations. Civilization is depicted to be the best for the world
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in their home state of South Africa THE START OF DE BEERS 1866 : Discovery of diamonds in South Africa 1874 : Cecil Rhodes brought Steam-Powered Pump to South Africa Mines 1880 : Rhodes formed the De Beers Mining Company By 1887 : He had bought out all the other claim holders 1890 : Merchant’s association formalized as the “Diamond Syndicate” THE DIAMOND CARTEL Cecil worked to consolidate the industry Kept the supply sharply limited Maintained the fragile illusion of their scarcity
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processing‚ manufacturing and marketing. History of De Beers: Cecil Rhodes Era Founder of De Bees‚ Cecil Rhodes started the company by renting water pumps to diggers with flooded claims during the diamond rush in 1871. He seized opportunities to purchase and consolidate claims and later entre mines. Among the rights he purchased was the right to mine the De Beers brother’s farm‚ whose name became the name if his company. Rhodes used his market position and access to credit to engineer a merger
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MOTIVES THAT CONTRIBUTED TO IMPERIALISM Imperialism is defined in the dictionary as being a " The policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by establishing economic and political hegemony over other nations" (p 681 American Heritage college Dictionary). Usually people associate imperialism as being the domination of a small country by a larger‚ more powerful country‚ usually to the advantage of the larger country. At the beginning of the nineteenth century most of the
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Country | Britain | Social | * East India Trading Co encouraged many Christian missionaries to convert Indian people‚ creating social-cultural imperialism * New cartridges utilizing animal fat caused disputes with both Hindu and Muslims in the British sepoys‚ leading to the Sepoy rebellion * The Indian Civil Service attempts to create a legitimate authority by giving British rulers the luxury and pompous lifestyle of previous Indian princes. * New sewage and water supplies were installed
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Meinertzhagen‚ Karl Pearson‚ Joseph Chamberlain‚ and Cecil Rhodes‚ they all had their own beliefs in Imperialism that may have contradicted another. In the novel the characters don’t all just complement each other there’s a bit of conflict in their view and opinions on motives for Imperialism. The various motives for Imperialism corresponds to the ideology brought forward by Richard Meinertzhagen‚ Karl Pearson‚ Joseph Chamberlain‚ and Cecil
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The causes of the Boer War in South Africa were the discovery of diamonds and gold in Transvaal and Orange Free State area that Cecil Rhodes and the British wanted to claim as their own‚ but was in the area the Boers technically controlled‚ and the tensions between the Dutch Boers and the British in general in South Africa. Also‚ the Kruger Telegram contributed to the tensions that
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speed to invade Africa with a new‚ ignorant moral justification for their profit mongering. Evolution was the basis to say that white men had evolved past the realm of the inadequate blacks and should empower them by ruling and teaching. Who is Cecil Rhodes and what impact did he have on imperialism in Southern
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in a competition with each other. One way this competition was fought was with imperialism. Imperialism allowed for more trade with new developing countries‚ which meant more economic power for each country involved‚ in theory. This is argued by Cecil Rhodes‚
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a large scale‚ which attracted European financiers such as Cecil Rhodes to take advantage of
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