Rhetoric & Reality

Colonialism is the ,

maintenance, acquisition,

and expansion of colony in

one territory by a political

power from another territory.

North America

The Caribbean

Sub-Saharan

Africa

South East Asia

South West

Asia and North

Africa

South Asia

Australia and

Oceania

Latin America

The Caribbean

Sub-Saharan Africa

South West Asia and North Africa

South East Asia

Latin

America

Sub-

Saharan

Africa

South West

Asia and

North Africa

South East

Asia

The Caribbean

South East Asia

The

Caribbean

South West

Asia and

North Africa

Sub-Saharan

Africa

South East

Asia

Sub-Saharan AfricaBurundi

Democratic Republic of the

Congo

Rwanda

South West Asia and

North Africa

Libya

Europe

The Russian Domain

Central Asia

Sub-Saharan

Africa

Ethiopia

Central Asia

Afghanistan

East Asia

China, Japan

South East Asia

Thailand

The Industrial

Revolution began

in Great Britain in

the mid-18th

century

Britain’s

advantages

The spread of

industrialization

Industrialized nations sought:

Raw materials Natural

resources A cheap labor

supply New

marketplaces for manufactured goods

The steam engine

Better transportation

Increased exploration

Improvements in communication

The steamboat Herald

(with mounted machine guns)

on the Zambezi river in AfricaOne of the first steam engines

David Livingstone

Mapping the “Dark

Continent”

• A desire to “civilize” non-Europeans also spurred the development of imperialism• Social Darwinism

Darwin’s handwritten cover

page for The Origin of SpeciesHerbert Spencer

Take up the White Man’s burden—

Send forth the best ye breed—

Go, bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives’ need;

To wait, in heavy harness,

On fluttered folk and wild—

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

Half-devil and half-child.

Take up the White Man's burden—

In patience to abide,

To veil the threat of terror

And check the show of pride;

By open speech and simple,

An hundred times made plain,

To seek another's profit

And work another's gain.

By Rudyard Kipling

The “White Man’s

Burden” appeared in

children’s books and

even in

advertisements

of the time period.

The Dutch first

arrived on the

Cape of Good

Hope in the late

17th century.

Europeans soon

began to settle on

the Cape, taking

land and forcing

the natives out.

In 1867,

diamonds

were

discovered

in South

Africa; in

1886, gold

was

discovered.

Diamond mining in South Africa

• Dutch and British

troops fought for

control of the Cape

• The British prevailed

British troops landing on the

Cape

King

Leopold II

of

Belgium

Established a

set of agreed-

upon rules

regarding the

competition

among the

great powers

for colonies in

Africa

Steamboat Stanley on the Congo River

By 1914, only

two African

nations

remained

independent

British imperialist who made huge profits from Africa’s natural resources

Founder of the state of Rhodesia in Africa

This

cartoon

depicts

British

imperial

ambitions

to control

the entire

African

continent.

European quest to control natural resources

Doing so led to drastic changes in the infrastructure of the continent

Improvements in

Transportation and Communication

Contrast appearance

Disgrace of man’s treatment towards his

fellow man

Everywhere starving & dying blacks lean for

rest, crawl for water & crouch for shade

Abandoned village

Ruins of grass walls

Sole purpose revolved around destroying

the land to obtain money & wealth

Natives as

“the less valuable

animals”

“Dusty nigger”

“sulky niggers”

“cannibals”

Savages”

“fool-nigger”

Colonizers as

“deity”

“universal genius”

“beacon house of

civilization”

“supernatural

being”

“adored man”