加那利的征服与西方殖民理论的初步建立

The Conquest of the Canary Islands and the Shaping of Western Colonial Theory

加那利群岛是西欧第一个具有近代性质的海外殖民地。古代欧洲人已经知道该群岛,但欧洲人真正对它产生兴趣开始于1340年代,对它进行全面征服和殖民开始于15世纪初。在这一过程中,包括教皇在内的西欧知识界和政界形成并发展了近代的殖民理论,西欧近代的扩张格局也随之形成。其殖民理论强调原始人的原始性,强调西方人带给他们文明和使其皈依的使命;其形成中的扩张格局包括各阶级和阶层的分工与分配扩张获利的制度。

The Canary Islands is the first modern overseas colony of the Westerners. In ancient times the Europeans have known these islands, but it was in 1340s that the Europeans began to be interested in them and began to conquer and colonize them at the beginning of the 15th century. In the process of colonization the western intellectuals and politicians developed a kind of modern theory of colonization and in the wake of it modern European expanding framework is shaped. The theory lays emphasis civilize and convert on primitiveness of the primitives and the mission by the Westerners to them. And the shaping expanding framework included the expanding division-of-labor among classes and the distributive system of profits gained in expansion.