Music by The Police “One World is Enough”
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
By pretending they're a different world from me
I shelve my responsibility
I don't want to bring a sour note
Remember this before you vote
We can all sink or we all float
'Cos we're all in the same big boat
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
The third world breathes our air tomorrow
We live on the time we borrow
In our world there's no time for sorrow
In their world there is no tomorrow
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
One world...
SOC 102 – BECOMING MODERN:
The Social Origins of Modernity
Dr. Manuel Vallée
University of Auckland
Semester 2 - 2016
OUTLINE
Announcements
- Breaking down the song… what does it mean?
- Quiz #7 results
- Thought of the day
- Assignment #2
Colonialism
- Why Study colonialism?
- Why does poverty matter? Why should we care about it?
- Age of Exploration
- Social Consequences (exploitation and empire building)
- 2nd wave Colonialism (19th Century)
- Indian Holocaust
- Race for Africa
Music by The Police “One World is Enough”
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
It's a subject we rarely mention
But when we do we have this little invention
By pretending they're a different world from me
I show my responsibility
I don't want to bring a sour note
Remember this before you vote
We can all sink or we all float
'Cos we're all in the same big boat
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
The third world breathes our air tomorrow
We live on the time we borrow
In our world there's no time for sorrow
In their world there is no tomorrow
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
One world is enough
For all of us
Lines are drawn upon the world
Before we get our flags unfurled
Whichever one we pick
It's just a self deluding trick
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
It may seem a million miles away
But it gets a little closer everyday
One world...
Thought of the Day…
“During times of universal deceit, telling
the truth is a revolutionary act.”
- George Orwell
Why Study Colonialism?
- Poverty
- Why study poverty?
- What are its societal affects? No Justice, No Peace
- What are its environmental affects?
Poverty’s Environmental Affects
- Loss of rainforests… and thus oxygen…
Recap: Portugal’s Exploration
- What did Portugal’s Exploration consist of?
Azores 1439
Madeira 1420
Cape
Verde
1460
1415: Ceuta
China
1543
Sierra
Leone
1480
1499
India
1500
Brazil
1488
1543
Japan
What were the Consequences of
Portuguese Explorations
The Arrival of New Spices into Europe
- Spices
The Arrival of New Plants into Europe
-
Spices
Foods: coconut, oranges, yams, and bananas
Drugs: opium, camphor, cannabis
Fabrics: silk, cotton, velvet
Woods: sandalwood, ebony, ivory, bamboo and lacquered wood
Recreation: Chess sets & sex appliances
Perfumes
Plants: tulips
Animals: parrots, rhinoceroses, monkeys
The Arrival of New Animals into Europe
-
Spices
Foods: coconut, oranges, yams, and bananas
Drugs: opium, camphor, cannabis
Fabrics: silk, cotton, velvet
Woods: sandalwood, ebony, ivory, bamboo and lacquered wood
Recreation: Chess sets & sex appliances
Perfumes
Plants: tulips
Animals: parrots, rhinoceroses, monkeys
The Arrival of Other Commodities to Europe
- Spices
- Plants: tulips
- Animals: parrots, rhinoceroses, monkeys
-
Foods: coconut, oranges, yams, and bananas
Drugs: opium, camphor, cannabis
Fabrics: silk, cotton, velvet
Woods: sandalwood, ebony, ivory, bamboo and lacquered wood
Recreation: Chess sets & sex appliances
Perfumes
Improved Geographical Knowledge:
• The Anglo-Saxon Map
Improved Geographical Knowledge
Ptolemy’s Map
The Age of Exploration: Spain’s Explorations
The Spanish Empire
Consequences of Spanish Colonialism
Consequences of Spanish Colonialism
Death and destruction related to the Capture of Tenochtitlan (1521)
Consequences of Spanish Colonialism
- Natural Mineral extraction… endentured labor by the locals,
pollution of the environment, theft of their natural resources…
Cerro Ricco (rich mountain), Potosí, Bolivia
Slavery
Slavery
The Dutch Explorations (1600 -1700)
Dutch Explorations: Abel Tasman’s Voyages
The Dutch Empire (1600 -1700)
The British Empire (1600 -1700)
Consequences of British Colonialism:
The Great India Famine of 1876-1878
Colonial Genocide: It is estimated that at least 24 million
Indians died during the Indian Holocaust, due to decisions
made by colonial administrators to dispossess people of their
land and their food… so as to make it available for the
European markets
SOURCES OF THE INDIAN HOLOCAUST
- Colonialism’s dispossession of lands from the natives
-The introduction of railroads to accelerate the dispossession of crops
- The ideology of economic liberalism
- Ideology of Eurocentrism… The idea that Indian lives did not matter
- The El Niño weather patterns
- Cholera
DECOLONIZATION
DECOLONIZATION
- Asian countries: India, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia
- Middle eastern countries: Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt,
Sudan, Libya
- African countries: Ghana, Zaire, Uganda, Congo, Rwanda
- Caribbean: Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago
- Pacific Nations: Fiji,Tonga, Papua New Guinea, Philippines
Key Questions about Third World Poverty
- What is the country’s colonial past? Who colonized the country?
- What political system did the colonizers impose? To what effect?
- What cultural ideologies did they impose?
- What economic system did the colonizers impose? To what effect?
- Who owns the land? How is the land used? That is to say, is it used to
grow crops for the locals? Or is it used to grow export crops for the
European countries?
- What resources are being extracted from the country? By whom? For
whose benefit? And at whose expense?
- What “structural adjustments” have been imposed on the country by
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF)? How has
that impacted the country’s funding of its infrastructure, including its
education and healthcare systems?
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
ON THE LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF COLONIALISM:
- Roots (video series about slavery in North America)
- 500 Years Later (video on long-term consequences of slavery for
Africa)
- The Buried Mirror (video on colonisation of South America)
- Jared Diamond. 1998. Guns, Germs, and Steel: A Short History of everybody
for the last 13,000 years.
ON EUROCENTRISM:
JM Blaunt. 1993. The Colonizer’s Model of the World: Geographical
Diffusionism and Eurocentric History.
Louise Levathes. 1994. When China Ruled the Seas: The Treasure Fleet of the
Dragon Throne, 1503-1433.