Interactions

Transformation, Imperialism, & Colonialism

Definitions Imperialism

Policy of extending control over foreign entities either thru direct or indirect political or economic intervention

Colonialism System in which a

state claims sovereignty over a foreign people, its resources, & its territory

Cecil Rhodes, “From Cape to Cairo”, as depicted in a 19th c. Punch magazine.

Transformation in Western Europe, 16th-19th c.

New state types emergence of the national state around

1500 well-defined territory relatively centralized Professional armies New accumulation of wealth

New economies Exploration of the “New World,” 1450-1700. Industrial capitalism

W. European Transformation New ideas

Science and Enlightenment Development of a new scientific

discourses

New identities “Us” and “Them,” “Civilized world and

“uncivilized” world, Orient & Occident gradual emergence of nationalism

Right, Gerome’s Napoleon in Egypt (1863)

French invasion of Egypt, 1798-1801

A romanticized painting of Napoleon inspecting a mummy at the Pyramids.

Transformations in Ottoman rule, 19th century Ottoman reform: The Tanzimat, 1830s-1870s

New centralization New technologies (railroad) New education New institutions

Nationalism loss of Ottoman territories Communal violence Reform & new powers (Egypt)

Erosion of Ottoman economic and political independence Capitulations

European protection of non-Muslim minorities 1881 Public Debt Administration

Age of Empire, 1875-1914 Growing global division between the very powerful and the not

powerful Rise of colonial empires

Between 1876 & 1914 about 25% of the world’s land surface distributed as colonies among about 6 states (E. Hobsbawm)

Reasons: economics (new markets & new resources), strategic reasons, political symbolism, nationalism

New European colonialism in the Middle East: Direct & Indirect colonialism British outposts on the Arabian Peninsula, 1799 New settler colonialisms in North Africa French annexation of Algeria, 1834 British administrative occupation of Egypt, 1882 Russian and British imperialism in Iran

In the late 19th c. around 60% of Britain’s cotton exports went to India & further east…

Imperialism in Africa, late 19th-early 20th century

Empire’s twilight: World War I and its aftermath Choosing the wrong side: The Ottomans

in WWI Secret European agreements:

Istanbul Agreement – Russia, England, France – Russia gets Istanbul and the straits; Arabs get Arabia and much of the rest of the Arab world

Sykes-Picot Agreement –Britain and France Husayn-McMahon Correspondence Balfour Declaration

Sykes-Picot Agreement

New Maps: the Mandate System League of Nations-sanctioned certain parts of the world were put

under “trusteeship” of various victorious European powers

British mandates in the MidEast: Palestine, Iraq, Transjordan

French mandates in the MidEast: Syria, Lebanon

Outside the Mandate True independence: Turkey Mostly independent: Yemen, S.Arabia Direct colonial rule: Libya (Italy);

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (French) External control & influence: Iran

(Britain, Russia, U.S.), Egypt (Britain) British treaties of protection: Kuwait,

Oman, U.A.E.