Industrial revolution enabled Britain’s full capitalist imperialism where Spain’s failed

Evidence

The received idea is that the Hispanic imperial text failed partly because, again oversimplifying, the conjuncture between conquest and mode of production was not yet right. Britain with its industrial revolution was the one that could launch full-fledged capitalist imperialism. … Shall I quote Barrera’s excellent little definition here? “Internal colonialism is a form of colonialism in which the dominant and subordinate populations are intermingled, so that there is no geographically distinct ‘metropolis’ separate from the ‘colony.’” — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 221

Categorization

• DEFINE: Barrera’s definition of internal colonialism — intermingled populations with no separate metropolis — is the precise sense Spivak applies.
• XREF: This distinct form of colonialism where colonizer and colonized share geography directly bears on whether ironic/strategic identity holds when there’s no spatial/metropolitan distance. — connects to: Continental and overseas imperialism achieved opposite successes and failures — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 632; Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth; Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 251

Broader Connections

• Continental and overseas imperialism achieved opposite successes and failures #expands (0.92) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 632
• Slave-created colonial wealth financed British commercial and industrial growth #corroborates (0.85)
• Colonialism created the conditions for modern capitalism’s emergence #corroborates (0.80) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 251