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The document discusses several themes around empire-building and conquest throughout history. It addresses how the Greeks, Romans, and United States have sought to conquer lands and spread democracy. It also examines the differences between empires and city-states, the role of race in justifying imperial devastation like the Holocaust, and how diseases and domestication aided European advancement and colonial suppression of other peoples. Slavery and exploitation of resources are presented as origins of imperialism, driven initially by greed.
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This document discusses the differences between American and European ideas of civilization. It argues that while America embraced the idea of "Western Civilization" to prepare for its role as a world power, America and Europe have fundamentally different concepts of nature, freedom, order, and cities. America's exceptionalism stems more from its identity as a settler society rather than as part of the Western/European tradition. The document examines how settler societies like America have resisted some aspects of European "Faustian" culture and managed to avoid extremes by balancing freedom and order.
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The first document is about decolonization and examines why some empires withdrew from colonies more quickly than others through a political history lens with global coverage. The second document discusses how the past can be understood through examining history as an event, experience, and myth. The third document addresses how family practices helped reproduce imperial rule in British India through a social history focused on Britain and India during the period of imperialism.
Book list colonization imperialism and decolonization
The document summarizes 14 academic works on topics related to imperialism, colonialism, and decolonization from a global historical perspective. The summaries provide the thesis or main argument of each work, the type of history and methodology used (such as political, social, cultural, environmental), and the geographic regions and time periods covered. The works address the political, economic, social, and cultural dimensions of empire building and dismantling from the 15th century through the late 20th century.
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The document provides an overview of world history from the 18th century through the late 20th century, covering major revolutions, the industrial revolution, European imperialism, World Wars I and II, the rise of communism, independence movements, and globalization. Key events discussed include the American and French Revolutions, the spread of industrialization, European conquest of Africa and Asia, the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union, independence of India and South Africa, and the increasing interconnectedness of the global economy in recent decades.
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Ethnocentrism refers to evaluating other groups based primarily on the standards and customs of one's own culture. It first emerged in social science studies in 1906 and can involve believing one's own ethnic group is superior. Ethnocentrism is common and can be seen throughout history in examples like European imperialism, Chinese cultural dominance, and Nazi Germany's oppression of Jews. While ethnocentrism helps reinforce group identity and loyalty, it can also promote discrimination, prejudice, and racism against outsiders.
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- 2. Conquering seems to be the reoccurring theme in Peoples and Empires. First with the Greeks and the Romans, and now with the United States, whether to conquer land or to spread democracy.
- 3. Pagden contrasts the empire to the city state and how the two are run.
- 4. The creation of race through the advances and devastation of empires. The holocaust as an example of trying to wipe out the Jews as an entire race.
- 5. Suppression seems to be a major theme of the two episode, not only by the Europeans, but also by the diseases they carried with them.
- 6. Advancement due to global positioning was another theme. Colonies that were located on the North African latitude lines had better crops and more advantage over other colonies that weren’t.
- 7. Domestication was the last theme. Without domesticating animals, the Europeans would not be as advance, nor would disease have been spread around the world the way it was.
- 8. Exploitation of the slave and the ground they used for cultivation showed up as a theme in the Origins of Slavery.
- 9. This article showed the beginnings of imperialism. It seemed to be birthed from geed and exploitation.