Hist
2c, L 9: Africa
by H. Marcuse, Apr. 29, 2003
Question: What effects did/does global differential development
have on Africa?
Review:
causes, concepts- Midterm questions
- Africa from the inside
Music: Babatunde Olatunji,
(1927-Apr. 6, 2003)
"Akiwowo" (Chant to the trainman)
Refresher: Latin America
Determining factors
- economic resources
- silver trade, sugar, hardwood
- "primitive extraction"
- social hierarchy (elites & leadership)
- state structure=monarchy
- Church
- Military
- Indigenous revolts (Tupac Amaru, 1780)
- Int'l situation (Nap.; 1812 constit. monarchy)
- Ideology (natives depicted in nature)
Model
of Historical Causality
People (elites): Individual Inventors
- Abraham Darby (1678-1717)
- used coke to smelt copper, then iron (1708)
- factory at Coalbrookdale (near low-sulphur coal)
- 1777-79 one of world's first cast-iron bridges
- 1805: works produced 1st locomotive w/ high-pressure
boiler
- 1712: Newcomen
steam engine
- 1758: 100, used to
pump water
- James Watt improves it
Ideas: Battle of the pamphlets
- 1789, Aug: French Nat. Assembly: Declaration of Rights
of Man
- 1789, Sept. 25: Jefferson, US Bill of Rights (ratified
Dec. 1791)
- 1790, : Richard Price, Sermon in Defense of the Revolution
- 1790, Nov: Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Rev. in France
- 1790, Dec: Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of Rights
of Man
- 1791, Feb: Olympe de Gouges, Dec. of Rights of Woman
- 1791, Mar: Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
- 1792, Jan: Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights
of Woman
- 1792, Jan: Burke, Reply to my Critics
- 1792, Feb: Paine, Rights of Man II
Concepts
Nationalism
- natio: birth
- vs. Patriotism
- inclusive vs. exclusive
Imperialism
- economic, political, cultural
- old vs. new
- Colonialism (notion of penetration)
Announcements
- Section visit 1-2 (no office hours today)
- Office hour visits Wed. 11-noon?
- midterm handout/questions
US
perceptions of Africa (LA Times, Apr. 6,
2003)
4 mio. deaths since 1999; 600,000 by violence
Scramble for Africa, 1880s
Compare maps of Africa in the 1780s and Africa in 1914
Africa film clip
- Afrique, Je te plumerai (Africa, I will fleece
you)
Jean-Marie Teno, 1992 (mins. 58-1:09)
- Cameroon
- pop. 12 mio. in 1990
½ under age 15
200 ethnic groups
- area 180,000 sq. mi. (=Missouri)
- 1827: British anti-slaving base
- 1884: treaty with Germany
- 1919: French/British
- 1960: independence
lecture by H. Marcuse on 4/29/03; outline prepared for web on 4/30/03, updated
5/7/03.
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Model
of Historical Causality
US
perceptions of Africa (LA Times, Apr. 6,
2003)