From the 1850's to the 1900's, Europe was experiencing the New Imperialism. Countries like Britain, Germany, France, and the Netherlands were taking over parts of Asia and Africa. Economy, culture, and politics were factors that led to this new era of forced trade, colonization, and modernization. .
France was one of the nations that participated in the New Imperialism. Their prime minister at the time, Jules Ferry, strongly supported the idea of Social Darwinism. In 1883, Ferry directly argued against those politicians who opposed his policies of imperialism in his speech given before the French National Assembly. He states, "It must be stated openly that, in effect,superior races have rights over inferior races." The new imperialism struck up many cultural questions for Europe. Europe felt that they must help save these small countries. they thought they could come in and take over because they were the inferior race to the Europeans. They thought of them as barbarians and thought they needed to use violence to conquer these poor little countries. they try to rescue every little country they thought was suffering such as India just to give one example. They thought that this was their duty to civilize these countries and force their culture on to them thinking it would help the countries thrive. the Europeans thought it would bring peace between the countries by them taking control of the lives and way the countries functioned do they would be the same as Europe. this obviously was wrong but the Europeans were blinded by their own culture that masked the other cultures. They forced upon christianity on the little countries because they felt this was the right way to help the countries with their morals and establish a better culture. .
Imperialism from a Japanese Perspective.
Previous to the "New" Imperialism, Japan was cut off from the rest of the world, until the United States sent Commodore Perry's black ship to coerce the Japanese into gunboat diplomacy.
European steel-makers embraced this method in the 1880s but Britain continued with the old acid steel making until the 1930s. ... In 1869, they were more or less set free from all government control and set about elaborating that anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, games-dominated Tory imperialism which was to remain characteristic of them. ...
Some have attributed the industrialization to imperialism, but some economically successful countries grew prosperous before imperialism and some, such as Norway and Switzerland, avoided imperialism altogether. ... As late as the 1880s, however, 2 percent of the population of China consumed more than 24 percent of the national product, a statistic which indicates the high level of poverty endured by the very poor (Jones 4). ...
The Doctrine was criticized by the President of Argentina, Roque Saenz Pena, in the 1880s saying that it was set up to "command one hemisphere in the name of the other hemisphere; gives orders to Europe in the name of our America; and ends up creating a New World chancellery without the authorization the rest of the States, which neither ask for nor need protection.12 Then, by 1923, the meaning of the Doctrine had changed to justify American hegemony in the Western regions.13 The most significant alteration of the Doctrine took place in 1904, while President T. ... Some perceive the Doc...
It is used to describe more than five hundred years of exploitation of Africa through slavery, colonialism, and imperialism. A colony is a settlement in one land supported by another land, and imperialism is the practice of building empires to support trade. ... By the 1880s a "scramble for Africa" occurred. ...
Like many European nations, Italy emerged from the First World War as a democracy in distress. Italy was on the winning side, but the war had cost nearly 700,000 Italian lives and over $15 billion. Moreover, Italy had received secret promises of specific territorial gains during the war, only to find those promises withdrawn when they con- flicted with principles of self-determination. Italian claims to the west coast of the Adriatic, for instance, were denied by Yugoslavia. Italy received most of the Austrian territories it demanded, but many maintained that these were inadequate rewards for ...
