Imperialism
Imperialism is a policy or ideology of extending the rule over peoples and other countries, for extending political and economic access, power and control, often through employing hard power especially military force, but also soft power. While related to the concepts of colonialism and empire, imperialism is a distinct concept that can apply to other forms of expansion and many forms of government. Expansionism and centralisation have existed throughout recorded history by states, with the earliest examples dating back to the mid-third millennium BC. However, the concept of imperialism arose in the modern age, associated chiefly with the European colonial …
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MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
Sanctuary in Pieces documents the evolving nature of sanctuary in settler societies. Drawing on archival research and interviews in Montreal/Mooniyaang/Tiohtià:ke, Madokoro explores the history of protection and hospitality over two …
military con- scription but they also resisted US imperialism more broadly. In instances where people sought … seeking refuge from forced conscription and US imperialism. Much has been written on this topic, most recently …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 October 2024 English
A thorough account of the cultural achievements of the anthropologist and media scholar Edmund Snow Carpenter.
discourse that had been made suspect by an imperialism funded by the slave trade and to reposition …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 1 October 2024 English
In It’s Nation Time, Jerry White argues that nationalism is an enduring and valuable social movement that functions to increase and uphold progressive globalisation.
(until very recently) have ritually denounced ‘imperialism’ while withdrawing their support from the oppositional …
PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 25 September 2024 English
In an operation which it calls an "open-ended battle of reckoning," it said these actions were carried out "in support of our steadfast Palestinian people and honorable Resistance in the …
after decades of being the cat's paw of U.S. imperialism. As Canada also provides criminal support by …
Fraser Institute · 19 September 2024 English
Though it is possible to define freedom in absolute terms, it is more useful to think of it as a spectrum. When individuals are freer, others impose fewer and less …
2010; Rodrik, 2011). • Capitalism begets imperialism. Capitalist societies are prone to go to war … uneven economic development and encourages imperialism (Lenin, 1917).24 • Unfettered economic freedom …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 17 September 2024 English
Northern Ontario can be understood as a hinterland-colonial region. This book offers an overview and statistical reference source for Northern Ontario on population, employment, and urban concentration since 1871.
their homelands, about cultural and cog- nitive imperialism, and the exploitation by colonial and decolonized …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 September 2024 English
Ireland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly …
of Ukraine not only reminded the world that imperialism was not dead, but this new war in eastern Europe’s …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integration of Indigenous perspectives, beginning in the 1920s, was this accepted …
and racial superiority implicit in British imperialism, the preponderance of the colonial gaze, and …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 3 September 2024 English
Covering a broad swathe of time, from colonization to the present day, Forced Migration in/to Canada examines human displacement in a variety of contexts: Indigenous dislocation and settler colonialism, Black …
Indigenous Peoples into objects of colonial imperialism, using them as “human flagpoles” but denying …
IHRP: International Human Rights Program, University of Toronto · 3 September 2024 English
The summer program promotes the exploration of sustainable peacebuilding through critical inquiry into the history and legacies of World War II in Asia. [...] Participants have diverse academic backgrounds, including …
II in Asia, Roots of Racism, Colonialism and Imperialism, Human Experimentation and Biological & Chemical …