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Mexican-Revolution
IB History of the Americas
| Jargon | Definition |
|---|---|
| economic imperialism | Socio-economic control that is exercised economically whereby promotion of the culture of the neo-colonist country, facilitates the cultural assimilation of the colonised people, and thus opens the national economy to the multinational corporations of ... |
| world-system | Multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change. Refers to the international division of labor, which divides the world into core countries, semi-periphery countries and the periphery countries. |
| neo-colonialism | Geopolitical practice of using capitalism, business globalization, and cultural imperialism to control a country, in lieu of either direct military control or indirect political control, i.e. imperialism and hegemony. |
| globalization | Processes of international integration arising from increasing human connectivity and interchange of worldviews, products, ideas, and other aspects of culture. |
| dependency theory | Body of social science theories predicated on the notion that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and underdeveloped states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former. |
| Monroe Doctrine | Policy of the United States introduced on December 2, 1823; it stated that further efforts by European nations to colonize land or interfere with states in North or South America would be viewed as acts of aggression requiring U.S. intervention. |
| Roosevelt Corollary | Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine that was articulated by President Theodore Roosevelt in his State of the Union Address in 1904; states that the United States will intervene in conflicts between European Nations and Latin American countries to enforce ... |
| Good Neighbor Policy | Foreign policy of the administration of United States President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. Its main principle was that of non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America, also reinforcing t... |
| dependent capitalist development | Dependent capitalism, of the type that has developed elsewhere in the periphery of the world capitalist system, is precisely a capitalism which entails stagnation, pauperisation and distress for the majority while a small minority grows at a very high ... |
| Immanuel Wallerstein | Rejects the notion of a "Third World", claiming there is only one world connected by a complex network of economic exchange relationships — i.e., a "world-economy" or "world-system" in which the "dichotomy of capital and ... |
| Raul Prebisch | Argentine economist known for his contribution to structuralist economics, in particular the Singer–Prebisch thesis that formed the basis of economic dependency theory. He is sometimes considered to be a neo-Marxian though this label is misleading. |
| Fernando Henrique Cardoso | Also known by his initials FHC, was the 34th President of the Federative Republic of Brazil; published several books and papers on state bureaucracy, industrial elites and, particularly, dependent capitalist development. |
| Singer-Prebisch Thesis | Postulates that terms of trade, between primary products and manufactured goods, deteriorate in time. In 1950, the economists Raúl Prebisch and Hans Singer independently developed the thesis that countries that export commodities (developing countries)... |
| anarchism | political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or, alternatively, as opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. |
| agrarianism | Political proposals for land redistribution, specifically the distribution of land from the rich to the poor or landless. |
| socialism | economic system characterised by social ownership, control of the means of production through cooperative management of the economy, and a political philosophy advocating such a system. |
| liberalism | Broad political ideology or worldview founded on the ideas of liberty and equality. Liberals espouse a wide array of views depending on their understanding of these principles, but generally liberals support ideas such as capitalism (either regulated ... |
| populism | Political ideology that sides with "the people" against "the elites". For much of the twentieth century, populism was considered to be a political phenomenon mostly affecting Latin America |
| Anti-reelectionist | Party founded in early 1909 by Francisco I. Madero for the purpose of going against the reelection of Porfirio Diaz; the party designated Madero to run for President in the 1910 elections; it won political power in 1911 by defeating Diaz (through armed... |
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