If you look in the description there is a link to a webpage on the lecture - it gives the date as Tuesday, 20 September 2011 - 6:00pm, Museum of London. There is a transcript and everything.
A correction,if you please: That ilustration of the time at 0:14:20 is the Portuguese Armada incursion in Jeddah (Juda) in Arabia Peninsula, near Meca, Red Sea in 1517. Nothing to do with Africa or Benin.
"It explores the great empires established by the British, Dutch, French, Ottomans, Portuguese, Russians and Spanish" Well actually it didn't explore the Ottoman or Russian empires, and it hardly mentioned the Dutch.
Sonthonax was called back in 1796 and L'Ouverture continued to liberate the Spanish east of the island and drive back British attempts to seize the profitable colony. He never proclaimed independence though and prevented acts of vengeance against the beaten white colonists. When Napoleon came to power and sent LeClerc to fight L'Ouverture, he kept his plans to reintroduce slavery a secret at first and parts of L'Ouverture's forces had separate parleys and joined LeClerc.
Once LeClerc's real mission came to light, he suddenly met with fierce resistance. Disease among french soldiers accelerated his defeat. LeClerc also committed numerous atrocities against captive black soldiers and civilians alike. Hence unlike L'Ouverture, his successor Dessalines showed little equanimity and slaughtered those whites that had not fled with the French forces. He also prohibited white people from ever living in Haiti again.
Interesting lecture but nothing was said about Russia’s empire. It had its differences with those of the maritime Western European empires but it developed during the same period and lasted into the Industrial Age.
I think Evans is wrong to paint the pre-industrial European empires as on a par with the previously existing empires such as the Chinese and Ottoman. The land area covered, the number of people affected, and especially enslaved, transported, driven away and killed, the amount of wealth generated, the inequalities of power, and especially the distances covered are all greater in the post-1500 European empires' case.
Matthew McVeagh, yes because the mongols killing 30% of northern China for grazing land or dropping the population of Persia by 90% or the 66% of Indians slaughtered by the Muslim invasions or the 3 million slaves taken from Europe for Ottoman boats and harems did not have near the impact. The population destruction of the mongols might have caused the disparity in power between the east and west during the age of European colonialism.
A first rate lecture. Thanks for posting it, Gresham College!
If you look in the description there is a link to a webpage on the lecture - it gives the date as Tuesday, 20 September 2011 - 6:00pm, Museum of London. There is a transcript and everything.
A correction,if you please: That ilustration of the time at 0:14:20 is the Portuguese Armada incursion in Jeddah (Juda) in Arabia Peninsula, near Meca, Red Sea in 1517.
Nothing to do with Africa or Benin.
"It explores the great empires established by the British, Dutch, French, Ottomans, Portuguese, Russians and Spanish"
Well actually it didn't explore the Ottoman or Russian empires, and it hardly mentioned the Dutch.
Sonthonax was called back in 1796 and L'Ouverture continued to liberate the Spanish east of the island and drive back British attempts to seize the profitable colony. He never proclaimed independence though and prevented acts of vengeance against the beaten white colonists.
When Napoleon came to power and sent LeClerc to fight L'Ouverture, he kept his plans to reintroduce slavery a secret at first and parts of L'Ouverture's forces had separate parleys and joined LeClerc.
Once LeClerc's real mission came to light, he suddenly met with fierce resistance. Disease among french soldiers accelerated his defeat. LeClerc also committed numerous atrocities against captive black soldiers and civilians alike. Hence unlike L'Ouverture, his successor Dessalines showed little equanimity and slaughtered those whites that had not fled with the French forces. He also prohibited white people from ever living in Haiti again.
Great lecture Richard!
If Columbus thought he really landed in India, how could he claim the land for Spain?
he would have nevertheless, spaniards were on a quest for conquest, they would have declared any place without white inhabitants their own.
@@juanfervalencia They would have claimed any place their own, whether they were white or not.
I honestly think he never truly believed he was in India. He just spewed lies consistently.
Interesting lecture but nothing was said about Russia’s empire. It had its differences with those of the maritime Western European empires but it developed during the same period and lasted into the Industrial Age.
date of lecture please
Full details are in the link in the description.
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13:33 "In a way they thought Christians would appreciate."
Epic burn. :D
I highly recommend reading Niall Ferguson's "Civilization: The West and the Rest". It is a fantastic read.
James Russell Just bought it
Did this miss teacher say " they would employ the natives"?
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I think Evans is wrong to paint the pre-industrial European empires as on a par with the previously existing empires such as the Chinese and Ottoman. The land area covered, the number of people affected, and especially enslaved, transported, driven away and killed, the amount of wealth generated, the inequalities of power, and especially the distances covered are all greater in the post-1500 European empires' case.
Matthew McVeagh, yes because the mongols killing 30% of northern China for grazing land or dropping the population of Persia by 90% or the 66% of Indians slaughtered by the Muslim invasions or the 3 million slaves taken from Europe for Ottoman boats and harems did not have near the impact. The population destruction of the mongols might have caused the disparity in power between the east and west during the age of European colonialism.
He wanted to conquer part of India.
year 1410, "Russia" ? LOL back to school mr.
as an interesting topic as it may be, it was rather poorly presented.
Long live Portugal and its migthy armies