Essay 1B Flashcards
Piracy context
1680-1725
Malagasy on European (Brit, Dutch, Fren)
Europeans struggle to end it
Piracy causes and stakes
Result of position
Reveals stakes for protecting trade
1698 British deploy squadron
Piracy what enabled
Location
Inter-dependence with the elite
Piracy where/why more prevalent
Location, right by Cape Of Good Hope
Piracy significance
Disrupted trade w/ Europeans-Drury
Differences
Good trade causes it in Madagascar, bad trade causes it in Batavia
Conflict context
1740
Dutch on Chinese
10000 Chinese died
Conflict causes and stakes
Result of poor trading and administration and bad care of environment
Racism
“Batavia Evening at Home” shows Asian wives seated away from men
Conflict what enabled
Chinese immigrants treated poorly try to flee city at once, panic, Dutch slaughter
Story of Chinese thrown into the sea
Conflict where/why more prevalent
Env Impacts, full of Chinese immigrants
Conflict significance
Ethnic tensions
Pressure for trade to succeed