The Impact Of European Imperialism

In the 1890s some Americans were eager to expand. Post-Civil War the U.S. was going through a time where they thought that they were lagging behind other nations in terms of expansionism. America felt that they were lacking what they needed in order to become a powerhouse. Many Americans, like Theodore Roosevelt or Alfred Thayer Mahan, were imperialists who wanted to acquire land/territories for the U.S. The United States sought to find their identity as a nation in the world. American Identity to imperialists can be defined as patriotism, military power, and dominance/hegemony.  This was controversial because some Americans were anti-imperialists who did not believe in expansionism, but in defending the Constitution. This brought about both supporters and opponents of imperialism during the Spanish-American War.

Throughout history around the world, imperialism took a big role. Imperialism had positive and negative effects. The Age of Imperialism took place between 1800-1914. During this time, Europe played a big role and was a major world leader. Many European countries had set up their colonies in many parts of the world such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Because of the European imperialism, they grew in power, making them a big part of the world’s power. They are also gaining natural resources and land. However, although Europe is gaining all the positive effects of this imperialism, the other countries--Asia, Africa, and Latin America--had an entirely different effect. Instead of gaining power like the Europeans, these countries and their people are being mistreated. They had all their land, culture, freedom, respect taken away from them. In addition to these negative effects, there was also racism involved.

During the late 1800's the initial ideas of colonizing susceptible territories in Africa and monopolizing an area under one European colony is the main influence on European Imperialism. European countries were motivated by the abundance of new market and good, the growing competition between European countries to imperialize African countries, and the idea of social darwinism. The main European countries involved in the colonization of Africa were Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Spain. While each of the countries had their own individual motivations that contributed to their roles in European Imperialism, they were all competing against each other which

Imperialism has been one of the most powerful forces in human history, serving to set the foundation of our modern world. While this has led to the formation of a global society where cultures, ideas, and innovations are spread across countries, imperialism has also left a history of exploitation, racism, and violence that is still affecting the world today. Imperial relationships are always imbalanced when it comes to power and influence; that is, one group (known as the metropole) maintains authority and control over another group (known as the periphery) with economic, political, and cultural dominance (Spiegel 2012). There are many reasons why one group chooses to dominate the other, such as expanding territory, extracting raw resources to fuel economic development, or to spread their beliefs (i.e. religion) (Spiegel 2012). In spite of these varied reasons, one of the main motivators for imperialism began with competition between empires.

The effects of imperialism and nationalism brought the world into an unenviable position during the early 1900 's. Colonies began to revolt against their rulers and left civilian unrest behind. The people began to question and change different structures of governments. Wars began to brew amongst nations and revolutions sparked. These events, however, remain far from inconsequential to modern day societies. Certain aspects, specifically, Gandhi 's non-violent resistance, Karl Marx 's The Communist Manifesto, and Pablo Picasso 's Guernica, continue to hold significance in modern day politics and communities.

Imperialism was an extremely big deal throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. There were many occurrences where people who were involved in imperialism would succeed, but there were also failures. Throughout this time period, powers from Europe, the United States and Japan all contributed to both the positive and negative impacts of imperialism. These impacts affected parts of Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Some of the few people that made huge changes during the “Age of Imperialism” are Dadabha Naoroji, J.A. Hobson, Mary Kingsley, Edgar Canisius, Albert Beveridge, and Rudyard Kipling.

From: Romesh Dutt, The Economic History of India Under Early British Rule Englishmen…have given the people of India the greatest human blessing – peace. They have introduced Western education. This has brought an ancient and civilized nation in touch with modern thought, modern sciences and modern life. They have built an administration that is strong and efficient. They have framed wise laws and have established courts of justice.

During the late 1800s, industrialization transformed many nations into advanced societies through the improvements of science, technology, industry, and transportation. Not only had had industrialization created great progression throughout the globe, but it also sparked the desire to build empires overseas, obtain more natural resources, and generate new markets for trade. This is also very commonly known as imperialism. Soon, an intense scramble began between seperate powers and countries became hungry for more political and economic control. However, not all countries faced the same strengths to expand leading to shameful colonization of the existing weaker nations. During the nineteenth century, those who faced

As mentioned before, Imperialism has caused a paradigm shift in our history. The variables contributing to the shift included much more unified nations, ludicrous economic growth in the more important powers of the world, better types of government, better healthcare and education. On the political side of Imperialism’s positive effects lies the economic growth, caused by colonization of smaller and insignificant countries in the search for raw materials, which were needed to ‘fuel’ the industrial revolution happening at that time. More economic growth required more organized government systems. Democracy was replacing feudalism in order to achieve efficiency and the country's economic structure.

Based on the history of the world, there are countless amounts of historic events and actions that has been taken place to change the nation. Those changes involved countries all over the world to cooperate and sacrifice some of their needs. One big development that occurred during the nineteenth century was the expansion of imperialism in Europe. The spread of European imperialism has left many different types of impacts affecting politics, economic stability, and distributions of power. Although, this major shift took action in the European countries, it also impacted the whole world. Some ways that imperialism has made an impact in international politics are expanding the economic growth among the nations and provided resources through industrialization.

With nation-state is on the down trod, the process of globalization has further rendered the realist perceptions as anachronistic, diminishing the capacity of policy making autonomy of state. Since states are not been able to function within its own capacity because they are having compulsory interdependence between each other, its self-decision making is greatly affected, inevitably compromising all social, political and economic regulations. Also the massive proliferation of people (refugees) across different borders, undermines security balance and renders it sometimes ineffective, stating the terrorism attack on Germany Dec 2016 as a reminder of the catastrophe that a de-territorialized state can encounter..

Although many countries may say that imperialism is wrong, great nations around the world like Britain, France, and the United States beg to differ. These great nations agree to the ideas of Social Darwinism’s that the fittest and strongest nations should rule over the weakest countries. It is obvious that they are not capable of ruling since they have all that natural resource sitting on their lands and they do not have any means of utilizing it. It is imperative for imperial powers to seek colonies that are rich in natural resources that can be used to industrialize the colonies while boosting the economies of the imperial powers. With the extent and wealth of its colonies, imperial powers gain power and prestige over our competitors, as

Throughout the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the world witnessed a global expansion as well as a compaction of people, cultures, and ideas. The need for goods, as well as the process of mercantilism to inflate economies, was instrumental in the advancement of seafaring technologies, the need to spread religion, and the eventual globalization of the slave market. The four major regions in the world, which were the stepping stones of globalization, are Africa, Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, the Americas, and finally East Asia.

time of the 1800’s and force Europe to implies Africa (Kerridge, n.p.). The word "imperialism" means the period of colonization of Afri

With the dawn of the Industrial Age near the beginning of the nineteenth century also came with the rise of nationalism, or the belief that a country’s way of life was superior to others. Nationalistic ideologies, born in the coal ovens of Industry, soon gave way to systems of imperialism that would quickly take hold in other parts of the world. For the purposes of this essay, can be broadly defined as a symbiotic relationship between an industrialized state and an agrarian state in which the industrialized state almost always benefits in some way, while the agrarian state is often times left with a mixture of benefits and disparagements. The fact that Industrialization took over the world in phases allowed for the first industrialized states to establish a system of imperialism in states that had yet to experience their own industrialization. From this, a competition arose between industrialized states that would boil over into the First World War. Through the analysis of primary sources dealing with imperialism, one can take an objective stance to view the effect that this newly established political system had on the industrialized and agrarian states of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In this analysis, it can be stated that imperialism, based on greed and racism, was a bad thing, however, it can be argued that is was not a holistically bad thing. In many cases, some agrarian states benefitted from direct and indirect imperialism.