World History › Section T · Industry and empire › Topic T.4
Exploitation and resistance
Colonial rule was built to extract wealth, and it often did so through violence, hunger and disease. Colonised peoples answered in many ways: working within the system, petitioning, boycotting and taking up arms. This topic looks at both sides.
In this topic
- Profit, force and response
- The Congo Free State
- Taxes, forced labour and hunger
- Disease and ecological disaster
- Cooperation and intermediaries
- Worked example: Moshoeshoe writes to the governor
- Armed resistance in Africa
- China: the Boxers and the 1911 revolution
- The Philippine-American War
- Worked example: Naoroji's drain argument
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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