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 July 2024 English

An Accidental History of Canada explores accidents, their causes, consequences, and afterlife, in colonial, Indigenous, and urban contexts, from the 1630s to the 1970s. These investigations make plain that accidents …

and the agendas of colonization, militarism, imperialism, and globalization all contribute to a compelling


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 July 2024 English

Friendless or Forsaken? is the story of child emigration agencies operating in North West England from 1860 to 1935. The book traces the imperial relationships, transnational economy, religious networks and …

Ellen Boucher that illuminates the centrality of imperialism to child emigration schemes, even in the face


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

Throughout the twentieth century in the lands of Yugoslavia, socialists embarked on multiple projects of supranational unification. Sensitive to the vulnerability of small nations in a world of great powers, …

conditions of political thought in the era of high imperialism. As this chapter argues, this new experi- ence a vanguard in the struggle against European imperialism. II The formation of a radical political culture Marković’s Balkan federalism for the era of high imperialism. These intellectuals were preoccupied with Serbia’s Europe would be shielded from the pressures of imperialism and pursue an alternative path of modernization perspective was indebted to the theories of imperialism then being developed around the Second International


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 18 June 2024 English

The word "pharmacopoeia" has come to have many meanings, although it is commonly understood to be a book describing approved compositions and standards for drugs. In 1813 the Royal College …

has Michael Worboy’s concept of ‘constructive imperialism’, where he argues that the chief function of


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 June 2024 English

Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the Age of Sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. …

characteristics, including exploration, trade, imperialism, and national rivalries. Practically all the


MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 14 May 2024 English

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models …

Richard H. Grove makes clear in his book Green Imperialism, colonial invaders encountered “a highly unfamiliar


AUP: Athabasca University Press · 14 May 2024 English

In every sphere of life, division and intolerance has polarized communities and entire nations. The learned construction of the Other—an evil “enemy” against whom both physical and discursive violence is …

the Western colonial project and postcolonial imperialism.30 The imagination of the Orient, Said argued alism, capitalist accumulation, and colonialism/imperialism. Unless these structures are addressed, non- through the long histories of colonialism and imperialism. Many of the conflicts we are experiencing today— protests in their new homes. Modern colonialism and imperialism, extremely violent versions of verti- cal thinking due to the vertical thinking of colonialism, imperialism, and nationalism. As the chapters in this volume


Wilson Center Canada · 6 May 2024 English

However, the past two decades have witnessed a dramatic shift in the geopolitical landscape, characterized by the erosion of multilateralism, the rise of nationalism, the resurgence of authoritarian regimes, and …

s_cohen.pdf. 43 Ilia Xypolia, Human Rights, Imperialism, and Corruption in US Foreign Policy (Palgrave


Wilson Center Canada · 26 April 2024 English

These losses have been made more seemed a possibility, especially in the wake of the palatable to the elite, certainly, by the systematic Avdiivka withdrawal, neither is it necessarily an …

extermination as an operational demonstrates that imperialism is not merely necessity. Even outside of growing


Yellowhead Institute · 18 March 2024 English

Untitled YELLOWHEAD BRIEF #149 | MARCH 19, 2024 Reflections on Economy, Racism & Solidarity in Iqaluit by Laakkuluk Williamson Bathory RACISM IN IQALUIT is a historical and ongoing issue that …

racism, which are all rooted in colonization and imperialism. Black communities and individuals continue to


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