Imperialism is defined as relationships that are unequal between two humans or territories. This is usually based on concepts of authority and the articulation of dominance over a particular territory. It comprises of the extension of control and regulation of one state over another nation. The British has been known to be a colonial power that has always practiced dominance over many states particularly in Africa. The British Empire is seen as one of the largest empires in both the past and current times. This is because it has many African and Asian colonies compared to the rest of the Empires. The empire was known to use force to subdue the states that it ended to subdue. The colonial power is seen to force its colonies to adopt certain policies that were favoring the British Empire at the cost of its colonies. It makes rules, policies and redraws boundaries, which collectively change these countries to suit the British Empire. Collectively these strategies made the empire the largest in the world with no threat of global dominion. It is believed that the British Empire accomplished its position through imperialism. This is by forcing its subject to adopt policies and engaging in wars to manipulate a country or colonial power. The opium wars are seen as an example of the imperialism of the British Empire. It also illuminates how the British Empire managed to become the largest colonial power.
The opium wars are two wars that were between the Britain and Chinese. The British was against the Chinese back in the nineteen century with the intention to stop the Chinese government from growing influx of opium . “The first war took place in 1839 and ended in 1842. It was seen as the Chinese attempt to resist the Britain free trade pra...
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... nature is demonstrated by British imposition of free trade on the Chinese territories. The two wars brought up the signing of treaties, which reduced the import duty and removed trade barriers that had earlier been imposed by the Chinese to protect the country’s economy.
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Imperialism is a policy of a country’s empire that extends its military power across other lands to get more contry of a area or region. England imperised the places that they did to ether get control over land. To get better access of trade, or just wanted to have more military power in the areas. The affected regions that England imperialized was intended to get access to more trade and to have a greater impact on the regions they were in.
Although it was illegal, many of the money hungry merchants excepted the opium in return for the things that were valuable to the English. Because of this, the first Anglo-Chinese war erupted. China underestimated the power of England and was defeated. At the end of the war, they were forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842). The treaty was one of the first treaties known as the “Unfair Treaties.”
Imperialism is the practice by which powerful nations or peoples seek to extend and maintain control or influence over weaker nations or peoples. By the 1800’s, the Western powers had advantages in this process. They led the world in technological advances, giving them a dominance when conquering other countries. The European Imperialists made attempts to conquer China and Japan. In this process, they succeeded by influencing Japan greatly. However, they were not as successful with China.
Imperialism is the domination of a weaker country by a stronger country. For instance Britain dominated India and China in the mid 1880s to the beginning of the 20th century. Imperialism has had both a positive and negative effects on the countries involved. Britain was imperialistic for many reasons, it could dominate because it had the technology and power to do so. They also needed land to acquire raw materials for growing markets.
These competition from those sources led to the East India Company to lower their prices increasing their exports from territories that were under their control as a strategy for winning a greater market expansion. The conditions to trade the opium at Canton had a big evolution. The western traders continued carrying opium to their own companies at the south of Canton, Whampoa to make the transfer to the Chinese buyers. After the Jiaqing imperial prohibition of 1796, the traders preferred to payed a bribe instead of paying the former custom duties. Opium had a really big global significance because opium was not a smuggling trade but it definitely had the biggest commerce of the time in any other single commodity. The opium had a really important role in the establishment of the western trading firms in Asia. The British victory in the opium war did not bring actually the legalization of opium because technically it remained illegal. In the arrow war, also known as the second war of opium, The Qing agreed to legalize the importation of the opium to China under the trade articles that were added to the treaty of 1858. Chinese domestic cultivation opium expanded a lot in those years after remaining illegal for three decades after 1860 until the domestically production was made legal
Imperialism is when a mother nation takes over another nation and become its colony for political, social, and economical reasons. Imperialism is a progressive force for both the oppressors (mother country) and the oppressed (colony), majorly occurring during the late 19th and early 20th century. It had more negative effects than positive effects due to its domination to other nations.
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Sara Rose begins her story For All the Tea in China by saying, “There was a time when maps of the world were redrawn in the name of plants, when two empires, Britain and China, went to war over two flowers: the poppy and the camellia.”(Prologue). The purpose of this book is to explain the growing tensions between Britain and China and how that tension then shaped the world. Sarah Rose stresses the importance of the opium and tea trade to the British Empire in this story. When the Chinese began the process to stop the sale of the opium to its citizens and closed the port of Canton to the India Tea Company, the British reacted with anger. They then decided it might would be a smart business move to create a source
Within Europe, imperialism occurred at the height of industrialization. As European countries were discovering more about the sciences and mass production benefits via industrialization, a demand and competition for more land and produce was developing, and this would create the tension needed to begin the First World War. Germany and Great Britain were two powerful European countries that had been trying to establish control in Africa and Asia, two countries that were not as strong as them, and relatively vulnerable. Due to rebellions of the native people and interferences by each other and other countries, they were not entirely successful. This lack of cooperation between European countries in the attempt to govern and control weaker states so as to use their products for trade caused tension, and finally after it built up to a certain point, war was the only option left.
The start of this war was when China wanted to end all trades with the British that contained any opium.
Imperialism is the domination by one country of political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region and occurred during the 1800’s in Africa. Imperialism in Africa was caused by four factors in Europe: economy, politics/military, humanitarian/religion, and Social Darwinism (Ellis). The Industrial Revolution in Europe caused the need for oversea expansion because the manufacturers needed things like: rubber, petroleum, and palm oil all of which Africa had. Europe moving into Africa was also caused by nationalism, when France went into Africa so did Britain (Ellis). The difference between France and Britain was the way of rule they used. There are four different methods of imperialism: direct, indirect, protectorate, and sphere of influence. The most popular were direct and indirect. The French used direct, they sent officials and soldiers from France to administer their colonies and their purpose was to inflict French culture on their colonies and make them into French provinces (Ellis). The British, however, used indirect, they used chiefs to oversee their colonies and encouraged the children in the colonies to get education in Britain. The British “Westernized” their colonies and only used military force when threatened (Ellis).
Imperialism is the policy or action by which one country controls another country or territory. Most such control is achieved by military means to gain economic and political advantages. Such a policy is also called expansionism. An expansionist state that obtains overseas territories follows a policy usually called colonialism. An imperialist government may wish to gain new markets for its exports, plus sources of inexpensive labor and raw materials. A far-flung empire may satisfy a nation's desire for military advantage or recognition as a world power.
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