![]() ![]() Arendt traces the roots of modern imperialism to the accumulation of excess capital in European nation-states during the 19th century. ![]() That unlimited expansion necessarily opposed itself and was hostile to the territorially delimited nation-state. She then discusses scientific racism, and its role in colonialist imperialism, itself characterized by unlimited territorial and economic expansion. Analysis of Antisemitism and ImperialismĪrendt begins the book with an analysis of the rise of antisemitism in Europe, particularly focusing on the Dreyfus affair. The book describes the rise of anti-Semitism in central Europe and in western Europe in the early-to-mid 19th century then examines the New Imperialism, from 1884 to the start of the First World War (1914–18) then traces the emergence of racism as an ideology, and its modern application as an “ideological weapon for imperialism”, by the Boers during the Great Trek (1830s–40s) in the early 19th century. ![]()
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