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History
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Types of colonialism
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Impact
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Perspectives
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Overview
- Metropole
- Imperialist Imperialism
- Colonization
- Annexation
- Colonies Colony
- Settler colonialism
- Indigenous peoples
- Amounting to genocide Colonialism and genocide
- Colonial empires Colonial empire
- Modern era
- Mercantilism
- Chartered companies Chartered company
- Civilizing mission
- Christian mission
- Decolonization
- Aftermath of World War II
- Persistent impact Persistence studies
- Economic development
- Regime types Government
- State capacity
- Neocolonialism
- First World War World War I
- Allied sea blockade Blockade of Germany (1914–1919)
- Allies Allies of World War I
- League of Nations mandates League of Nations mandate
- Soviet empire
- Easter Rising
- Irish War of Independence
- Apartheid legislation
- Manchukuo
Etymology
- Etymologically Etymology
- Colonia Colonia (Roman)
- Roman Roman Empire
Definitions
Types of colonialism
- Exploitation colonialism
- Surrogate colonialism
- Immigration
- Settlers Settler
- Kashmir
- New Zealand
- Northern Ireland
- Russia
- French-controlled Algeria French Algeria
- Rhodesia
- Zimbabwe
- Italian-controlled Libya Italian Libya
- Kenya Colony
- Japanese-controlled Japanese colonial empire
- Korea Korea under Japanese rule
- Trading posts Trading post
- Colonization of Africa Colonisation of Africa
- Asia Western imperialism in Asia
- Mandatory Palestine
- Colony of Liberia
- State State (polity)
- Taiwan Martial law in Taiwan
- Kuomintang
- Isolationist Isolationism
- Opium Wars
- Opening of Japan Bakumatsu
- Young Robert J. C. Young
- Russian Russian Empire
- Chinese Chinese Empire
- Ottoman Ottoman Empire
History
- Ancient Egyptians Ancient Egypt
- Phoenicia
- Greeks Ancient Greece
- Romans Ancient Rome
- Colonies in antiquity
- Persian Empire Achaemenid Empire
- Greek city-states Greek colonisation
- Vikings Viking Age
- Norsemen
- Leif Erikson
- Colonies Viking expansion
- Mediterranean
- Venetians Stato da Màr
- Genovese Genoese colonies
- Amalfians Duchy of Amalfi
- Byzantine
- Eastern Roman
- Crusaders Crusades
- Outremer
- The Levant
- Baltic littoral Baltic Sea
- Venice Republic of Venice
- Dalmatia
- Fourth Crusade
- Acquisition of three octaves Partitio terrarum imperii Romaniae
- Constantinople
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Trade
- Age of Discovery
- Crown of Castile
Impact
- Pandemic
- Oppression
- Detribalization
- Appropriation Original appropriation
- Exploitation Exploitation of natural resources
- Enslavement
- Abolitionism Slavery in Africa
- Cultural appropriation
- Forced assimilation
- Colonialities Coloniality of power
- Residential schools American Indian boarding schools
- Cultural colonialism
- Mestizos Mestizo
- Southern Rhodesia
- Anglo-Burmese Anglo-Burmese people
- Anglo-Indian
- Burgher Burgher people
- Eurasian Singaporean
- Filipino mestizo
- Kristang Kristang people
- Macanese peoples Macanese people
- Dutch East Indies
- Indonesia
- Indo Europeans Indo people
- Strabo
- Augustus
- Myos Hormos
- Roman Egypt
- Gujari
- Delhi
Geography
Perspectives
- Marx Karl Marx
- Lenin Vladimir Lenin
- Self-determination
- RSFSR Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
- USSR Soviet Union
- Sultan Galiev Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev
- Vasyl Shakhrai Vasyl' Shakhrai
- Walter Rodney
- Underdevelopment
- Capitalism
- Free trade
- Monopoly
- Capital Capital (economics)
- Exports
- Classical liberals
- Adam Smith
- Frédéric Bastiat
- Richard Cobden
- Herbert Spencer
- William Ewart Gladstone
- Liberal policies Political freedom
- The Wealth of Nations
- Craniology
- Comparative anatomy
- Phrenology
- Georges Cuvier
- Sarah Baartman Saartjie Baartman
- Postmodern literature
- Edward Saïd Edward Said
- Orientalism Orientalism (book)
Sources
- Israel Studies
- Indiana University Press
- Jewish Social Studies
- Doi Doi (identifier)
- JSTOR JSTOR (identifier)
- Brill Brill Publishers
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Jabotinsky, Ze'ev Ze'ev Jabotinsky
- John Wiley & Sons
- Stanford University Press
- State University of New York Press
Primary sources
- Conrad, Joseph Joseph Conrad
- Heart of Darkness
- The Wretched of the Earth
- Las Casas, Bartolomé de Bartolomé de las Casas
- A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Colonialism
Top relations
related to Further reading · 134
Colonialism → Africa, Albertini, America, An International Social, Andres, Anti-Imperialism, Arthur, Asia, Awaken, Benedikt, Brazza, British Investments, Broberg, California Press, Capital, Caroline Recher, Cengage Gale, Colonial, Colonial Law, Coloniser
related to Sources · 81
Colonialism → Aaronson, Alroey, April, Archived, Arthur Ruppin, Birth, Bloom, Brill, British, Citizen Strangers, Cohen, Collins, Colonialist Enterprise, Companion, Critical, Culture, December, Dream Deterred, Emma, Eretz Israel
related to Types of colonialism · 36
Colonialism → Africa, Argentina, Asia, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colony, Exploitation, French-controlled Algeria, Internal, Israel, Italian-controlled Libya, Japanese-controlled Korea, Kashmir, Kenya Colony, Liberia, Manchuria, Mandatory Palestine
related to Contemporary · 28
Colonialism → China, Chinese, Construction Corps, Contemporary, Decolonization, East Turkistan, Exile, First East Turkestan Republic, Han, It, May, Mongolia, New Territory, Non-Self-Governing Territory, PRC, Russian, Second East Turkestan Republic, Sinkiang, Sun Yat-sen, The East Turkistan Government
related to 20th century · 27
Colonialism → Abyssinia, Afghanistan, American, Apart, Asking, Belgian, British, British Empire, China, Dutch, French, German, Grover Clark, He, In, Italian, Japan, Japanese, Nepal, No
related to Marxism · 25
Colonialism → Africa, Guyanese, In, It, Lenin, Lyal, Marx, Marxism, Nations, Non-Russian Marxists, Right, RSFSR, Russian, Self-Determination, Socialist Revolution, Soviet, Specifically, Sultan Galiev, Sunga, The
related to Modern · 25
Colonialism → Age, Americas, British Empire, Canary Islands, Castile, Constantinople, Danish, Discovery, Dutch Empire, English, Following, French, It, Modern, Navigator, Ottoman Empire, Portuguese Empire, Portuguese Prince Henry, Spanish, Spanish Empire
see also · 21
Colonialism → AfricaEuropean, African, AmericasDevelopmentalismDirect, AmericasEuropean, Asia, British EmpireImpact, Concept, DiscoveryAnti-imperialismChartered, EmpireColonialism, EmpireHistoriography, Great Powers, History, King, LibertyEuropean, MicronesiaEuropean, Olympic GamesColoniality, OrientalismPluricontinentalProtectorateRight, Southeast AsiaFrench, SwitzerlandColonialism, Western
related to Liberalism and capitalism · 17
Colonialism → Adam Smith, Britain, British, Classical, Edward Morel, Fox, Fox Bourne, Frédéric Bastiat, Henry Richard, Herbert Spencer, John Bright, Josephine Butler, Nations, Richard Cobden, The Wealth, Their, William Ewart Gladstone
related to Antiquity · 13
Colonialism → Activity, BC, Egyptians, Greek, Greeks, Mediterranean, North Africa, Persian Empire, Phoenicia, Phoenicians, Romans, The Romans, Western Asia
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colonialism | is a | practice of extending and maintaining political | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | existence of colonies | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | notion of uneven structural power between areas of a state | 0.90 | text |
| Colonialism | is a | process involving elements of both settler and internal colonialism | 0.90 | text |
| protectorates or informal spheres of influence | instance of | which are by definition governed differently from other territories | 0.80 | text |
| Young who wrote that imperialism implements state policy | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| while colonialism may reflect commercial intentions | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| although supported by force | instance of | Imperialism and colonialism have been distinguished by scholars | 0.80 | text |
| the Russian | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| Chinese or Ottoman have traditionally been called imperialist | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| although they also sent populations into their remote territories | instance of | Contiguous land empires | 0.80 | text |
| the Venetians | instance of | with competitors | 0.80 | text |
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Nodes416
Edges415
Triples545
Avg. degree2
Density0.004808
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