His 150 Cultural Theory

1. Cultural Theory and the Age
of Imperialism

2. Introduction
• Changing Social
Ideas/Theories
– Maturation
• Political Military
Economic Power
• Marketplace
• Desire for Resources
• End Result Colonial
Imperialism
• Intellectual Currents
reflected Social
Development
– Realism
– Naturalism
– Positivism

3. Marx
• Karl Marx 1818-1883
– Communist Manifesto
– Social Theories
– Cause of Revolutions of 1848?
– Das Kapital
– Marx’s Efforts Failed
• International Working Men’s Association Reformed
in 1889

4. Karl Marx 1818 -1883

5. Darwinism
• Charles Darwin 1809-
1882
– Radically Alters
Conception of Time
and Biological Life
– Natural Selection
• Origin of Species
(1859)
• Decent of Man (1871)
– Darwinism and
Christianity

6. Scopes Monkey Trial

7. • Social Darwinism
– Extension of Darwin’s Theory to Society
– Herbert Spencer
– Link w/ Racism
– Buttressed imperialism, racism, nationalism,
and militarism
• Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic Superiority

8. • Racial Nationalism
– Volkish Thought-
Germany
– Uses of History and
Race
• Frederick Nietzsche
“God is Dead” “I teach
you the Superman”

9. • Anti-Semitism
– France -Edourd Drumont Journalist
– Austria-Karl Lueger
• Christian Socialist Party
– Germany-fears of “World Conspiracy”
– Russia-expels 20,000 Jews from Moscow
– 19th Century Anti-Semitism Different
• No Longer Just Religious
• Theodor Hertzl The Jewish State (1896)

10. Dreyfus Affair

11. New Imperialism
• Causes
– Vs Colonialism
– Second Industrial Revolution
• Economic Motives Inseparable from National
– Missionaries-Good Works
• Raise those Who Can Not Raise Themselves
– Desire for Adventure and Exploration

17. • Responses
– Violent
– Ideological
– Nationalistic Resistance
• British India
– Sepoy Mutiny 1857
– Limited positive affects
• China
– Boxer Rebellion

18. China
Boxer Rebellion
• “Carving up the
Chinese melon.“
• Japan defeats
China 1895
• The Righteous and
Harmonious Fists
• Boxer Protocol of
1901
• Humiliating
Terms

19. • Scramble for Africa
– European Hegemony
– 1880 1/10
– 1910 ALL
– Leopold II International Association for the
Exploration and Civilization of Central Africa
– Berlin Conference
• Map Still Reflects Boundaries Drawn

24. Boer War

25. • British Africa
– Cecil Rhodes
– Gold
– War
• Conclusions