Hey all, I was doing some research on contemporary world, and was hoping some of you that might have some extra time of their hands while taking a break from our sites to help me get some points on a question i might have. Rep will be given for the ones who do help out. Here is the question: What were the major causes of the re-emergence of imperialism in the late nineteenth century? I have come up with the question but honestly am having a hard time looking for some concrete points to cover it. Some might say i should search harder on google, but your help is by far appreciated. Do help me solve this question. Rep is will awarded for the help. Best Regards
Good lord, 501, you do know what a behemoth you are approaching, right? It is loaded - as disparate a field as Lenin and Bismarck's views have been used to explain the day. In brief, mine: the earlier industrializing countries had the benefit of a slow build to a national economy, a more gentle disruption to agrarian and artisanal producers, a more gentle inclusion into the national political stream, and a more effective separation of state and heavy industry. They also had obviously carved up a good part of the known world in an early land grab to feed the burgeoning mother economy, beginning with mercantilist explorations and coming to a head, against late industrializers, in the 1st quarter to last years of the 19th century. In this respect, England was classical. The late bloomers, on the hand, necessarily developed late, hard, and fast, with a tremendous concomitant upheaval at home - more salient class struggle, more disruption, more collusion between the central (central, nascent or otherwise), state and heavy industry. Both to secure needed materials under an exigent period of growth, and to buy off domestic coalitions seeking prestige, "danegeld" and other social goods; the land grab grew to an explosive pace, all under a zero-sum game; the globe is finite. Hence, WWI (coupled with a unified Germany, an area of land that effectively acted, as a set of principalities, as a "pressure relief valve" under the European state system of bargaining over land; once Germany unified, this inherent flexibility was lost - and the works got gummed up. But this is another topic). -My brief response. There are a ton of materials on all this. Please feel free to PM if you'd like, and I will try to pull some things together.
Haha i do know its large topic! Well thanks alot for the help. I have been reading thru some resources along with some books trying to compile some information together. But what you wrote did give me some ideas. Thanks again! Will message you if i need some help! Rep given!