1. Introduction Much of the debate about the de-industrialising impact of colonial rule focused on the experience of India. Even though recent studies offer a different understanding of industrialisation and underdevelopment in India (Roy 2004: 233-34)‚ the belief that India suffered ‘de-industrialisation’ and that the experience can be extrapolated to other Asian countries‚ including Indonesia. There are several problems in any quantification of the production and consumption of cotton
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Q1: Defend or refute one of the following statements: The European encounter with the Americas can be viewed as a disaster and a tragedy. Or The European encounter with the Americas can be seen as inevitable development in the history of humanity with long-run positive results. The European encounter with the Americas has more of a negative affect than a positive affect. After Columbus had came back from America with gold‚ many monarchs and countries got excited by the gold and sought formal confirmation
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cultural movement validating the lives of women has transformed tremendously since its inception in the early 19th century. The movement transcend three dynamic periods or ‘waves’ beginning in 1831 to today that have each helped to shape and define a‚ “multifaceted‚ nuanced‚ complex‚ and often contentious (Swigonski and Raheim‚ p.11)” activism that continues to consume feminists‚ scholars‚ politicians‚ and detractors alike. Caroline Dorey-Stein (2015) chronicles three distinct feminist periods the
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tension between colonists due to the social structure that stemmed from the vision of each colonies founders compare to what the population of the colony actually wanted and even the way in which some colonists found themselves making it to the new world. The europeans who migrated to America did so for rather different reasons than the reasons the crown and corporations had for starting the colonies. While the colonies were started for profit‚ natural resources‚ and exerting power‚ the Europeans who
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overthrown? This tragic event happened in the 1870s the to people of Africa when the Europeans decided to imperialize meaning a to enforce a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force. The driving force behind European imperialism in Africa although hard to be determined would be national identity economical prophets and the fear of social unrest. The Europeans decided to imperialize based upon the fact of their national identity what would other
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scarcities that the people of the Colonial Era (1492-1763) faced were relieved with the foundation and development of human labor‚ which‚ depending on a person’s distinct appearance and social backgrounds‚ progressed differently throughout the regions of Colonial America. Two individuals have been highlighted to differentiate between the upbringing of human labor: Mary Jemison and Olaudah Equiano. Each individual had been transported to separate regions of Colonial America from their origin countries
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Introduction: In the beginning of the 19th century a new wave of imperialism‚ which affected all parts of the world and was very sophisticated in its nature‚ known as ‘European Imperialism’ started. A strong nationalism of that time (an idea of national superiority) veiled under ‘the Social Darwinist Movement’ (Europeans felt that they had the right to take control over weaker areas/regions) set what is known as ‘a Scramble for Africa’. West Africa was already known/researched/investigated to Europe
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authority. Unlike the Christian world from which European newcomers arrived‚ Indian religion did not pose a sharp distinction between the natural and supernatural‚ or secular and religious activities. In some respects‚ however‚ Indian religion was not that different from popular spiritual beliefs in Europe. Most Indians and Europeans held that a single Creator stood atop the spiritual hierarchy. Despite the disapproval of official churches‚ numerous Europeans believed in witchcraft and magic and interpreted
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1. FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT Freedom of movement is a human rights concept initially set out in Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the UN General Assembly on 10 December 1948 in Paris. Free movement of people within European countries‚ initially designed exclusively for workers‚ was established in Article 48 of Treaty of Rome in 1957. Legal grounds for mobility of people in the EU arise from Article 3‚ paragraph 2 of the Treaty of European Union as well as Article 21 and
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600-1450 C.E. 27. Where and when did the Kush and Axum civilizations develop‚ and what were their major industries for trade? The Kush and Axum civilizations developed to the south of Egypt in the upper reaches of the Nile river. Kush developed at about the same time as ancient Egypt‚ and at one point around 750 B.C.E. actually conquered it. Less than a hundred years later‚ however‚ Kush retreated southward back to its capital at Meroe‚ where it became the center of ironworks and trade. After the
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