BLOG 12 : Chapter 22 - The End of Empire (The Global South on the Global Stage)
Sam Pastol
Moving on from the Modern Era; science was challenged a a way of understanding physical reality, people embracing their own cultural identity, Anti-colonialism/recognition of co-equality of all people and Erosion of Enlightenment ideas.
TIMELINE
(China + Indian Ocean Trade)----(Modern Era)-----(Conquest of Africa)----(20th Century)---| China
+ Renaissance + Australia. + WW2 on the rise
+ conquest of the Americas + Apartheid again
+ Feminist Movement
This Chapter 22 titled "The End of Empire" talks about struggles and experiments with freedom as well as African and Asian Independence. New states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy and/or independence from their European colonial rulers. First there was no prices of decolonization. That been said, some areas were peaceful while some others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution. The process of decolonization happened during the same time as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the WW2, Japan drove the European powers out of Asia. Ones they surrendered in 1945, local nationalist movements in the former Asian colonies campaigned for independence rather than a return to European colonial rule. The process decolonization of Africa which began at the end of WW2 was a radical regime change on the continent as colonial governments made the transition to independent states. In the decades that followed independence, they worked to shape the cultural, political and economic character of the postcolonial state. Decolonization was a process as well as a historical period.
Comparing Freedom Struggle:
South Africa:
+ Apartheid: a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa.
+ Transition to white rule
+ Eventually, both black & white rules
+ Pass Laws
+ African National Congress, 1912
India:
+ Smooth planned transition to self government
+ Impact of WW2
+ Mohandas Gandhi
Moving on from the Modern Era; science was challenged a a way of understanding physical reality, people embracing their own cultural identity, Anti-colonialism/recognition of co-equality of all people and Erosion of Enlightenment ideas.
TIMELINE
(China + Indian Ocean Trade)----(Modern Era)-----(Conquest of Africa)----(20th Century)---| China
+ Renaissance + Australia. + WW2 on the rise
+ conquest of the Americas + Apartheid again
+ Feminist Movement
This Chapter 22 titled "The End of Empire" talks about struggles and experiments with freedom as well as African and Asian Independence. New states in Asia and Africa achieved autonomy and/or independence from their European colonial rulers. First there was no prices of decolonization. That been said, some areas were peaceful while some others, independence was achieved only after a protracted revolution. The process of decolonization happened during the same time as the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. During the WW2, Japan drove the European powers out of Asia. Ones they surrendered in 1945, local nationalist movements in the former Asian colonies campaigned for independence rather than a return to European colonial rule. The process decolonization of Africa which began at the end of WW2 was a radical regime change on the continent as colonial governments made the transition to independent states. In the decades that followed independence, they worked to shape the cultural, political and economic character of the postcolonial state. Decolonization was a process as well as a historical period.
Comparing Freedom Struggle:
South Africa:
+ Apartheid: a former policy of segregation and political and economic discrimination against non-European groups in the Republic of South Africa.
+ Transition to white rule
+ Eventually, both black & white rules
+ Pass Laws
+ African National Congress, 1912
India:
+ Smooth planned transition to self government
+ Impact of WW2
+ Mohandas Gandhi
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