A200 Block 6

Question 0

Britain’s colonial relationships

Answer 0

Complex, shifting and shaped by how the territory had been acquired and body of voters in a specified area

Seley 1883 - Britain acquired an empire in a fit of absence of mind - he advocated closer working arrangements between dominions and parliament , an imperial parliament

Question 1

Late 19th Century Imperialism - a new kind of Imperialism

Answer 1

Aggressive, combative, European powers begin to to conflict re interests and colonies

Aggressive form of capitalism fuels a more ruthless exploitation of colonies

Modern concepts of progress, democracy, morals and capitalist production thought to demonstrate the triumph of civilisation over barbarity

Empires acquired via conquest, formal annexation, trading rights without formal control (informal empire)

Question 2

France’s empire

Answer 2

Aldrich 1996 - French acquired their overseas territories in piecemeal fashion others after years of preparation and reflection

Question 3

John Hobson Imperial Critic 1902

Answer 3

‘Imperialism was an alliance of industry, financial capitalism and the state that sought foreign markets and foreign investments to take the goods and capital they cannot sell or use at home’

‘Defence (of South Africa) took precious lives while the benefit appeared to go to a few

Capitalism - wealthy individuals who invest in trade and industry for profit, trade by private owners for profit.

Lenin’s ‘Imperialism’ written between 1915 and 1916 - monopoly capitalism

Question 4

Jules Ferry on French Colonial expansion 1884

Answer 4

For economic gain for exports and secure global goods movement

Duty to civilise inferior races

To fight off other western powers from territory

Question 5

Relief of Mafeking

Answer 5

18th May 1900, thousands take to the streets to celebrate relief of Mafeking

South African (Boer) war 1899 - 1902

Question 6

Colonies taken

Answer 6

France - 1881, Tunisia, and part of Congo Basin, 1885 Madagascar

Italy - 1882 Eritrea

Britain - 1882 Egypt, 1886 Royal Niger Company, 1888 British East Africa Company claims Kenya, Gambia becomes a colony, 1889 charter granted to Rhodes South Africa company, Rhodesia established 1890 a 1893 from annex lands Ndebele war in Rhodesia

Germany - 1884 Togo, Cameroon, New Guinea, 1885 East Africa (Taganyika), 1897 Von Bulow makes his ‘place in the sun’ speech, 1904 Herero uprising crushed

Belgium - 1885 Congo Free State, Casement report to parliament re horrendous treatment of Congo natives by Belgians, 1908 Congo Free State taken over by Belgian government