What were the "New Europes," and why did they arise in certain areas?
What will be an ideal response?
A. New Europes
1. regions similar in climate to much of Europe and therefore exploitable for
European colonization
2. Canada
a. managed to combine in 1867 in a confederation that the British
largely put together
b. British drove rails across the continent, and created a state
remarkable for social welfare, cultural pluralism, constitutional
flexibility, prosperity, and peace
b. system Britain established in Canada was a variant of indirect rule
c. help to fight of United States advances
3. South Africa
a. South Africa was the least oppressive of the new Europes
b. settlers allowed the native peoples to survive, so that they could
exploit their labor
c. Africa also had a sizable community of Afrikaaners, white citizens
mainly of Dutch ancestry
d. Britain bought Afrikaaners' loyalty by giving them power over black
South Africans
4. Algeria
a. sort of Old World America, where France could encourage American
levels of input and achievement among the colonists, while penning
the native races
5. New Europes really did reproduce much of the look and feel of old Europe
a. lives of the elite of the capital Buenos Aires, surrounded by
embossed wallpapers, Italian carpets, Spanish paintings, and French
perfume
b. New Zealand has the English-style municipal gardens colonists
planted in the spent craters of volcanoes to remind them of home
c. English historian visiting Australia found "English life all over
again."
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