Understanding Third World Politics

Rosa Luxemburg also emphasized the importance of pre-capitalist soci- eties as new markets which could be controlled rather than ...

rural industries and small-scale commodity producers in North America and South Africa. Capitalism’s need for new investment opp ...

overwhelming majority of British subjects’ (p. 114). They enjoyed none of the important political rights of British citizens, re ...

Theories of Imperialism and Colonialism 31 raw materials and agricultural commodities (tin, copper, zinc, cotton, rubber, coffee ...

32 Understanding Third World Politics so were: the interactions of the European alliance systems and nationalisms in a framework ...

developing very powerful monopolistic forces within its own economy long before its relatively slight excursion into imperialism ...

and French in West Africa were caught up in this, wanting to stop each other gaining possessions as much as to occupy territory ...

understand to be in their interest. Joseph Chamberlain described imperial- ism as ‘knowledge in place of ignorance, civilisation ...

climates. Weaponry made possible the incorporation of communities with which the Europeans had formerly only traded into imperia ...

A hierarchy of colonial officials extended from the Secretary of State for the Colonies at the apex down to district commissione ...

accumulate. Concepts of rent and tenancy were absent from such cultures, as were the political relationships that accompany them ...

the wisdom of ancestors in order to solve disputes over land, family affairs or economic activities, make decisions concerning t ...

part of the debate about post-colonial ‘dependency’ and will be referred to again in that context in Chapter 4. On the one hand, ...

Over a period of time changes in relations of production gradually took place under the influence of colonialism. This generated ...

Taking the Indian sub-continent as an example, Wood itemizes the extent of colonial state intervention designed to ensure the ri ...

administration to prevent the development of class consciousness by any stra- tum of indigenous society. ‘African political and ...

3 Modernization and Political Development Social evolution Modernization theory has its origins in classical evolutionary explan ...

influential. Some theorists described these processes in terms of greater dif- ferentiation in society, a particularly important ...

The historian S. N. Eisenstadt showed how structural differentiation affected stratification. The process of modernization fragm ...

to the extent that its members use inanimate sources of power and/or use tools to multiply the effects of their efforts’ (Levy, ...