The departure of imperialism from expansionism is more obvious than its continuation. First of all, for expansionism, there was not as much problem as imperialism becuase it was expanding domestically. Meanwhile, it was more complicated for later because those countries America wanted to conquer were foreign territories and it led rebellions. Before America started looking outside of the nation, countries like Germany, Britain, Japan and Russia had already controlled most of the world (Doc A). Inspired by them, America felt a necessity to be a part of the…
New Imperialism Resulting from a rapid technical progress, a new attitude towards foreign policy began to dominate European governments. Political elites were increasingly influenced by the idea of Social Darwinism which justified the growing demand for more aggressive expansion and reinforcement of national status. “Survival of the fittest” encouraged states to engage in colonial rivalry since acquisition of territories outside Europe began to determine the potentiality for dominance in the…
produced during the prewar era similarly attempted to improve the Japanese attitude towards the state; people were given a role in the creation of national identity, with a particular focus on Japanese imperialism. In the postwar era, the literature that reflects the psychological effect of American occupation is evidence of the deep penetration of those prewar ideologies. By analyzing the way Japanese empire was portrayed in literary pieces aimed at children and women, as well as stories that…
The end of the 1800s and the beginning of the 1900s sparked an era of imperialism within America and its citizens. This sense of imperialism included an induced drive in western settlement, annexation and occupation of countries and colonies, and manifest destiny. People like Frederick Jackson Turner, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt encouraged the settlement and expansionism. They all wanted to continue the growth of America’s influence and the world and wanted it to be a significant…
A Warning to Humanity: Imperialism in the Modern Age In the rise of the modern era during the twentieth century, the state of the British Empire began to experience a rather extreme identity crisis due to the growing distaste for imperialism between the many colonial ties that started to question the validity of the relationship to its “Mother Country.” These tensions within the empire that arose due to British colonialism caused colonies to push for a more independent status from their English…
Bonfil Batalla’s book, Mexican Profundo: Reclaiming a Lost Civilization, highlights the struggles of the Mesoamerican culture in the past and present. The author provides an insightful look at two different civilizations that have occupied Mexico throughout the centuries. Batalla named these two civilizations the Mexico Profundo and the imaginary Mexico. He explains how these civilizations have major differences that restrict their ability to coexist peacefully together. This book provides a…
Imperialism in its most simplistic form can be defined by the dictionary of human geography as “the creation and or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination.” It is also declared by this work to be primarily a western phenomenon that utilizes “expansionist, mercantilist policies” which was demonstrated during the nineteenth and twentieth century. Japan in the earlier…
expanded old ones; this became known as imperialism. In this essay four general motives that inspired Europe to its great imperial successes at the end of the nineteenth century will be discussed. These motives are: religious, strategic, economic and demographic. During the time of ‘land grabs’ of the African countries many Europeans wanted to control the inhabitants of these countries as well. Because the European society was more industrialised than other continents such as Asia and…
In a race there always has to been a winner. There will always be someone in the middle, at the end, and leading pack. This form of competition is similar to the way in which imperialist competition took place. The British were not immune to this competition, and if fact led the pack in conquering the uncivilized lands. The British saw it as their duty to bring prosperity and hope to lands of people who otherwise may not have it. The notion causes the British to ignore the race against many…
In ‘The Rhetoric of Empire’, David Spur explores the discourse that Western journalists, travel writers and imperial administrators have used to depict the non-Western world using tropes, which he identifies through a careful analysis, tracing various sorts of writings from different historical contexts, and studying the way in which these tropes have been deployed. Among these rhetorical modes are surveillance, classification, and affirmation; framing these themes proves very much useful, as it…