... They also were able to gain control over the minerals and spices which provided the locals with sustenance. Finally, they used millions of Indian soldiers to fight their dirty little wars across the globe. With so much of the British Empire dependent on India, it was important to ... keep the sea lanes around Africa open. This hadn't been a problem until the Franco-Prussian war of 1871. After defeating the French, the Germans tried to prevent the French from exacting revenge by suggesting that they focus their resources on colonizing Africa. This threatened the few British ports ... Bri...

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... - sought to replace the previous emphasis of most historians on political history with a range of social and economic concerns. The most influential social historians have been members of the French Annales school, such as Marc Bloch and Fernand Braudel, who focused primarily on medieval and early modern European history. Another influential group of historians, including Eric Hobsbawm, E. P. ... 'Subaltern Studies', viewed as a collective enterprise, represents the most significant achievement of South Asian 'cultural studies'; it has effectively contested what were until recently the d...

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... investment in human labour continued and grew and in 1488, the profit margins generated were so large that they almost solely funded the Christian nation's war against Islam in North Africa. By the 1500's the monarch was earning over 2 million reis from the slave trade through taxation alone5 and so ... growth in France was notably highlighted by C.L.R. James in his book "The Black Jacobins" when he stated "in 1789 the French West Indian Colony of San Domingo supplied almost two-thirds of the overseas trade for the nation."12 Nicknamed the "Pearl of the Antilles" due ... capitalists' jump...

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... public attention with his accounts of his explorations and his reminder that a slave trade on the east coast was still taking a great many slaves across the Indian Ocean to the Arab world. When he said that he was going back to Africa to make an open road for commerce and for Christianity he meant ... the moral right to rule over the weak. This concept is influential in the motivation to expand into Africa. The scramble for Africa primarily starts as French and German policies of expansion become apparent. It is important to make note though that the British government as of 1880 was lead...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... public attention with his accounts of his explorations and his reminder that a slave trade on the east coast was still taking a great many slaves across the Indian Ocean to the Arab world. When he said that he was going back to Africa to make an open road for commerce and for Christianity he meant ... the moral right to rule over the weak. This concept is influential in the motivation to expand into Africa. The scramble for Africa primarily starts as French and German policies of expansion become apparent. It is important to make note though that the British government as of 1880 was lead...

• Word Count: 3207
• Approx Pages: 13
• Grade Level: Undergraduate