Imperialism summary

Fueled by racism and an economic imperative, Europeans used their technological superiority to subjugate the rest of the world, its resources and its peoples.  The currents that drove the mid-century wars (people-concern and state-interest in particular, but also a quest for realism, the exotic, and outlets for Victorian-era-suppressed sexuality) found their way into the drive for all that was different and valuable in Asia and Africa.