{"id":3221,"date":"2014-03-02T15:46:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/?p=3221"},"modified":"2014-03-02T15:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-03-02T20:46:25","slug":"imperialism-hobson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/03\/02\/imperialism-hobson\/","title":{"rendered":"Imperialism &#8211; Hobson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Imperialism<\/p>\n<p>A. John Hobson (1902)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>English economist<\/li>\n<li>Critic of imperialism<\/li>\n<li>Wealthy family and well educated<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>C.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>One of the most famous critiques of the economic bases of imperialism<\/li>\n<li>Middle of 2<sup>nd<\/sup> IR<\/li>\n<li>Britain had lost its monopoly on the world market<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>L.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intelligent, enlightened, somewhat complex<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Britain\u2019s leaders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Inform Britain not only that imperialism is unnecessary, but it wastes Britain\u2019s resources on peoples that can never become part of Britain instead of fixing internal problems<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>M.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Meaning of the word imperialism shifts through manipulation<\/li>\n<li>Nationalism has had both unifying and dividing effects<\/li>\n<li>Nationalism set the momentum for expansion\u00e0imperialism<\/li>\n<li>Imperialism was unnecessary until Britain lost its monopoly of the world market<\/li>\n<li>As other nations such as Germany, Belgium, and the US encroached upon Britain\u2019s markets, Britain had to find new markets<\/li>\n<li>Must be undeveloped<\/li>\n<li>Safest means of developing these new markets is establishing protectorates<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Imperialism is not inevitable like many people think<\/li>\n<li>If Great Britain focused on bettering itself, they wouldn\u2019t need to seek our undeveloped markets to exploit<\/li>\n<li>Neglecting agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Overpopulation<\/li>\n<li>Poor education system<\/li>\n<li>New markets they are seeking cannot be assimilated to Britain<\/li>\n<li>Imperialism driven by class interest<\/li>\n<li>Must cut imperialism at its economic roots to be effective<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imperialism A. John Hobson (1902) English economist Critic of imperialism Wealthy family and well educated C. One of the most famous critiques of the economic bases of imperialism Middle of 2nd IR Britain had lost its monopoly on the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/2014\/03\/02\/imperialism-hobson\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1925,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51180],"tags":[94163,6771,51879],"class_list":["post-3221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","tag-hobson","tag-imperialism","tag-nationalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1925"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/quallsk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}