Journalist + Traveled to West Africa.

(1899) Poem = The White Man’s Burden summarized view of duties of imperial nations.

View = Considered Imperialism to be beneficial to Africans.

Great Britain + other Western Countries = Built overseas empires in late 1800s Industrial Revolution

Transformed the West.BUILDING OVERSEAS EMPIRES

Imperialism the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region.

MOTIVES DRIVING THE NEW IMPERIALISM

•Imperialism did not begin in the 1800s = European States established colonies after 1492 Americas + South Asia + Coasts of Africa + China.

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Economic Interests Spur Expansion:

Manufacturers = wanted additional access to natural resources rubber + petroleum + markets of consumers to sell manufactured goods.

Bankers = sought ventures to invest their profits.Colonies = offer valuable outlet for Europe’s growing population.

Humanitarian and Religious Goals:Missionaries + Doctors + Colonial Officials Believed = Duty spread blessings of Western Civilization.

Applying Social Darwinism:Motivation = behind West’s civilizing mission growing sense of Racial Superiority.

Applied Darwin’s ideas = Natural Selection + Survival of Fittest Human Societies.Argued that European races = superior to all others imperial domination of weaker races was nature’s way of improving the human species.

The Rapid Spread of Western Imperialism

(1870 – 1914) Imperialist Nations = gained control over much of the world found favor with all classes (Bankers + Manufacturers + Workers

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Forms of Imperial Rule

French = practiced direct rule sent officials + soldiers from France to administer colonies.Goal was to impose French Culture + turn them into French Provinces.

British = practiced indirect rule used Sultans, Chiefs or other local rulers + encouraged children of local ruling class to get education in Britain

Sphere of Influence- area in which an outside power claimed exclusive investment or trading privileges.