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Why???
So Why???
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Seeking profit.
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Agricultural plantations
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Slave trade.
Piracy.
It is seen as monetarism,
Investments:
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Secundary changes:
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Peasant revolts.
Increase in population.
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Industrial Revolution
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Diffusionists =
They dont recognize the role of the preconditions necessary for the industrial revolution
to happen, which are:
Accumulation of capital,
Increase in demand (expansion of markets),
and the attainment of political power by the
bourgeoisie class.
All of these are caused by colonialism.
Counter-diffusionism
C. L. R. James and Eric Williams
They show that India was more advanced
technologically than England for textile
production, then England limits its progress
(cuts off hands).
Plantations are also considered by the authors
as already capitalists and as necessary for the
French Revolution to take place. (accumulation
of capital helps French bourgeoisie to emerge).
Blaut
Their argument (James and Williams) can be
extrapolated to all of Europe and the entire
process of capitalisms emergence:
All of Europe needed wealth accumulation and
incoming capital to transform itself and break away
from Feudalism.
Re-investments from plantations, slaves, gold, etc.
were the platforms from which the bourgeoisie
gained power and became the most powerful class
once it took control of political power too.
Diffusionism again:
Main stream theorists reject
counter-diffusionism.
1- They try to reject it empirically,
but they have only been able to
prove that slaves were not as
profitable.
Blaut says they underestimate
slaves numbers.
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Capitalism is a world system
centered in Europe
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Which increased its development
and other's under-development.
BTW: This theory was first
developed by E. Wallerstein
based on Brazilian scholars
(Theotonio Dos Santos and F.
Cardoso) not mentioned by Blaut.
(Marcos)