Titlebook: European Imperialism, 1860-1914; Andrew Porter Textbook 1994Latest edition Macmillan Publishers Limited 1994 empire.Europe.Expansion.growt

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Definitions and Theories,ial, political or economic processes, in order to understand their distinct function and perhaps their importance relative to each other. These tasks of identification, disentanglement arid assessment are unavoidably contentious. Even the title of this essay will raise the hackles of at least some r

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,‘Metropolitan’ Explanations: Political,loomed really large between .. 1880 and .. 1912; even then they were rarely seen as vitally important in their own right, being treated as means to more important European ends (which is why, for example, the Fashoda Crisis of 1898 did not result in an Anglo-French war): and ultimately they contribu

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Other Recent Approaches,omentum since the late fifteenth century, is portrayed as one of deepening capitalist development in the areas being linked in a global economic hierarchy to the highly developed core. Its outstanding features include the redirection of major trades, their replacement with new trades in primary prod

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Definitions and Theories, little to dispel this problem, and any discussion almost immediately exposes a semantic minefield. Words like ‘political’, ‘social’, ‘cultural’ or ‘economic’ are unavoidable, but, ordinary though they may be, they are difficult to use precisely; the boundaries between the things they describe are r

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,‘Metropolitan’ Explanations: Political,mperialism as the direct offspring of the continent’s political, essentially diplomatic, calculations. This is justified in one very obvious sense. Foreign policy-makers, both ministers and their officials, were immediately responsible for the international negotiations inseparable from the initial

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,‘Metropolitan’ Explanations: Social and Economic,s adopted certain courses of action in preference to others, with a clear sense of the likely consequences. Contemporaries, well aware of the influences touched on in Section 2, often appealed to them as causes of and justifications for imperial expansion. Critics of empire claimed that had other in

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Other Recent Approaches,pisode in the steady creation of the modern world economy. Developing perspectives derived from Marx, A.G. Frank and Fernand Braudel, Immanuel Wallerstein has started from the proposition that imperialism is the essential servant of an expanding capitalism [294; 295; cf. 277; 279]. He has published