Post-1850 capitalist globalization proceeded through imperial conquest that reterritorialized world space.

Evidence

The vast expansion of foreign trade and investment after 1 850 put the major capitalist powers on the path of globalism, but did so through imperial conquest and inter-imperialist rivalry that was to reach its apogee in World War I - the first global war. En route, the world’s spaces were deterritorialized, stripped of their preceding significations, and then reterritorialized according to the convenience of colonial and imperial administration. Not only was the relative space revolutionized through innovations in transport and communications, but what that space contained was also funda­ mentally re-ordered. The map of domination of the world’s spaces changed out of all recognition between 1 850 and 1914. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1674

Categorization

• XREF: Deterritorialization/reterritorialization prefigures the flexible-accumulation argument Jameson makes for the postmodern era — connects to the rival-periodization comparison the reader is pursuing. — connects to: Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82; Imperialism as policy emerged from nineteenth-century European capital stagnation; Colonial labor flows and racial subjugation predated and founded modern globalization. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 92 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalist accumulation was built on colonial conquest and enslavement. #corroborates (0.85) — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the…, 82
• Colonial labor flows and racial subjugation predated and founded modern globalization. #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 92
• Imperialism is capitalism’s political drive for the remainders of the noncapitalist world #qualifies (0.78) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 2224
• Imperialism as policy emerged from nineteenth-century European capital stagnation #expands (0.75)
• Rapid industrialization historically drives major powers toward expansion and imperialism #expands (0.72) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 615