Class Notes

Imperialism: Descriptions, Origins, and Legacies

Things to Know:
  • Old and New Imperialism
  • formal control
  • informal control
  • metro-centric
  • peripheral
  • "God, Gold and Glory"
  • colonies
  • indentured servants
  • Burundi
  • Rwanda
  • Tutsi
  • Hutu
  • French Indochina
  • political boundaries
  • partriarchy
  • sexuality
  • India Mutiny

DOCUMENT: "The White Man's Burden," by Rudyard Kipling
IMAGE: Columbus' Discovery of New World
IMAGE: Scene from an Ottoman bath


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