World cities: The global north and south

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

4 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

09/25/2008

Category :

Political science

Sub category :

Social sciences

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Summary :

Introduction.
The olden movement of colonialism.
The global north or the developed and highly industrialized countries.
The Third Worlds and the recent environmental crisis.
Jonathan Adams and Thomas McShane: The Myth of Wild Africa.
Nineteenth century Latin America.
The vibrant social forces in Europe and African slavery.
Conclusion.

Abstract

The 20th century witnessed the pivotal inauguration of Western expansion, also historically known as the Age of Exploration. The Europeans were the first people to manipulate global affairs to a large extent. Consequently, this period of discoveries, occupations, and colonization put forth a remarkable boost in trading activities and the inflow of money to the civilized societies of the Old world. The Age of Exploration became the catalyst for the emergence of a new world economy. Subsequently, the economic form of capitalism germinated due to the freshly amassed wealth and resources from the satellite countries or which are currently addressed to as the global south. Apparently, the olden movement of colonialism created both advantages and disadvantages to the nations which did not engage into territorial expansion and survived simply by tapping the resources made available to them by their immediate environment; unfortunately, the negative effects of colonialism outweighed the opposite. Colonialism drastically altered the very structure of the occupied territories such as its social, political, and economic systems.