The Age of High Imperialism

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The Age of High Imperialism

• Examining Articles from
• Imperialism in the Modern World
• William D. Bowman, Frank M. Chiteji, J. Megan
  Greene

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Table of Contents

• What is Imperialism?
• The White Mans Burden
• Imperialist Propaganda
• Japan A Call for Change!
• The Fight Against Imperialism.
• Tippoos Tiger
• Tools of Empire
• Conclusion

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What is Imperialism?

• The age of high imperialism ranges from the mid
  1800s to 1914
• During this time America, Britain and Europe
  went out to Africa and Asia in hopes of seizing
  territory, expropriating raw materials and labor.
  

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The White Mans Burden.

• Rudyard Kipling an English write and journalist
  wrote the Poem The White Mans Burden.
• He believed that Imperialism was white
  Euro-Americans moral obligation to go out and
  civilize the people of Africa and Asia.

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/Kipling.html). Photo provided by
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Imperialist Propaganda.
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Japan A Call for Change!

• Western Imperialism left China and India without
  control over their countries and reliant on
  western government.
• Japan took drastic steps to emulate and use
  western technology to create a modern imperial
  Japan.

-China and India have no path to independence
other than that offered by our guidance and
protection. Ikki, Kita, An Outline Plan for
the reorganization of Japan Imperialism in the
Modern World Sources and Interpretations, ed.
William D Bowman, Frank M. Chiteji, J. and Megan
Greene (New Jersey Pearson, Prentice Hall,
2007), 134-35.
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The Fight Against Imperialism.
Formally men worked in the open air so much as
they liked. Now, thousands of workmen meet
together and for the sake of maintenance work in
factories or mines. Their condition is worse then
that of beasts. (M.K. Gandhi, Civilization,
Imperialism in the Modern World Sources and
Interpretations, ed. William D Bowman, Frank M.
Chiteji, J. and Megan Greene (New Jersey
Pearson, Prentice Hall, 2007), 54.

• This quote was stated by Mohandas Karamchand
  Gandhi.
• Take a minute or two to think about what Gandhi
  is trying to say?

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Tippoos Tiger
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Steam Engine
Quinine
Railroads
Tools of Empire
Language
Education
Rifled Barrel
Chicotte Whip (Rhino Whip)
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Overall, We Have Learned

• The definition of imperialism.
• One justification for Imperialism.
• A piece of Propaganda.
• Imperialism was not limited to only white
  Euro-Americans.
• The anti-imperialist view.
• The tools which facilitated the ease of
  Imperialism.

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