Few can deny the significance of sport in today's South Africa. The sporting structures upon which this is based were first introduced to the country by the British in the late nineteenth century. In line with policies of cultural imperialism, sports such as cricket were promoted at this time...
NewImperialisminAfrica Withintwentyyears,from1880to1900,everycorneroftheEarth,fromthehighestmountainsintheHimalayastothemostremotePacificislandandAntarctica,cametobeclaimedbyoneorotherEuropeanpower.Africasawthemostdramaticcolonisation.ItwasdividedupasifithadbeenacakesplitbetweengreedyEuropeanleaders.Thiswas...
Between the period from 1880 to 1914, European powers went after overseas empires in Africa. The governments and political leaders of the European powers believed that this colonization of the African empires was necessary to maintain their global influence. A second group of people supposed that Af...
Semi-detached empire: Suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present 115 The folly of modern imperialism would not come home to many Britons until the Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902). Thanks to its incursions in South Africa, Britain entered the twentieth century victorious—though ...
and parts of Southeast Asia. On the other hand, the new imperialism was the period between the years “1870-1914”, where Europe became more focused on expanding their land into Asia and Africa. Imperialism had many pros and cons. In addition, it also had many causes led by the feeling ...
unmarriedfemaleprotagonists, thesetextsset duringthe colonial wars in German South-west Africa (1904–1907)–conflicts thatultimatelyled to the deaths of over60,000 Herero and Nama people in what isgenerallyconsidered the firstgeno-cide of the twentieth century–place white German girls at the ...
Specifically, what explains variation in "native policy," the cornerstone of colonial rule? This article examines the development of German colonialism in Southwest Africa (with respect to the He... G Steinmetz - 《Political Power & Social Theory》 被引量: 36发表: 2002年 Stanley L. Engerman:...
. Their efforts sparked European interest in the continent. Scramble of Africa The term "Scramble of Africa" refers to the intense period of European colonization from the 1880s to 1914. Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, and Spain competed to conquer the continent. It ...
By the early 20th century, only two countries in all of Africa—Ethiopia and Liberia—remained independent. A Imperialists also competed for territory in Asia, espe- cially in China. In its late-19th-century reform era, Japan replaced its old feudal order with a strong central govern- ment...
Yet in a sense, the entire study acts as a readjustment of how the end of the century is viewed. No one would deny that there were strong imperialist concerns then, at the end of the century, the "age of imperialism" and the scramble for Africa, when France and Germany attempted to ...