Industrialization And Imperialism: Hand Or Distantly Related?
Industrialization and Imperialism: Hand-in-Hand or Distantly Related? The Industrial Revolution was a time in history in which rural areas shifted from predominantly agricultural expertise to urban machinery, factories and mass production. While this led to vast increase of power to Great Britain, the birthplace of the industrial revolution, it also led to increased competition between European nations as they searched for markets and raw materials. Given the increased nationalism and driven competitiveness in Europe, the Industrial Revolution was in direct correlation with the increase of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Industrialization changed the way the Europeans saw themselves and others. Where before they freely
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“The colonization of the South Pacific territories of Australia and New Zealand, both of which were taken over by the British during the nineteenth century, was more similar to the earlier colonization of North America than to contemporary patterns of Asian and African conquest. In both places, conquest was accompanied by large-scale European settlement and diseases that reduced native numbers by seventy-five percent or more by nineteen hundred” (Strayer, …show more content…
It had previously focused primarily on trade in Africa and Asia and gold and agriculture in the New World. The Industrial Revolution vastly increased productivity in industrialized areas, leading to a need for more raw materials to keep up with technological capacity. As a result, Great Britain needed a source for raw materials, such as cotton to keep its textile mills running. The need for cotton was part of the reason for British takeovers in India, Egypt and other areas. Improvements in transportation also gave Europeans better access to distant markets, giving them a place to sell the manufactured goods that they made with their new technology. Steamboats and railroads made Europeans more capable of projecting power to far-flung colonies, which permitted the European powers to control larger
“The colonization of the South Pacific territories of Australia and New Zealand, both of which were taken over by the British during the nineteenth century, was more similar to the earlier colonization of North America than to contemporary patterns of Asian and African conquest. In both places, conquest was accompanied by large-scale European settlement and diseases that reduced native numbers by seventy-five percent or more by nineteen hundred” (Strayer, …show more content…
It had previously focused primarily on trade in Africa and Asia and gold and agriculture in the New World. The Industrial Revolution vastly increased productivity in industrialized areas, leading to a need for more raw materials to keep up with technological capacity. As a result, Great Britain needed a source for raw materials, such as cotton to keep its textile mills running. The need for cotton was part of the reason for British takeovers in India, Egypt and other areas. Improvements in transportation also gave Europeans better access to distant markets, giving them a place to sell the manufactured goods that they made with their new technology. Steamboats and railroads made Europeans more capable of projecting power to far-flung colonies, which permitted the European powers to control larger