PS 212: Politics in the Third World

Take up the White Man's burden--Send forth the best ye breed--Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives' need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild--Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.What is the Third World?

What is the Third World?

The Global South

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Age of Discovery

Age of Discovery

Spain

Portugal

Germany

France

Great Britain

Africa in the 1800s

Africa 1891-1914

Ethiopia

Ethiopia

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