Wehler Flashcards
What is Wehlers theory based on?
The social and political forces brought about by industrialisation. Economic growth changed political outlook and regulated expansion.
What did territorial expansion allow for?
opportunity to unload internal problems.
Where does expansion emanate from?
from the metropole according to its socio-political problems.
why was Bismark a pragmatic expansionist
He had lassiez faire attitude to empire and prefered informal means he new that formal means required parliament something he wanted to curtail.
What was the magic triangle
territorial expansion leading to economic stability and preserving the socio political hierarchy.
How did you secure political legitimacy?
Through sound finance.
Example of pragmatic expansionism?
In the 1870s there was formal organisation of foreign trade agreements in response to agriculture crisis. After 1882 global downturn formal colonisation began.
