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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Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English

This history of one of the earliest nineteenth-century mission stations in Natal traces the transformation in the lives of a community that settled first at Indaleni near Richmond and later …

processes of social revolution that accompanied the imperialism of trade, missionaries, and colonial conquest pre-capitalist, pre-colonial societies with imperialism at the micro level of social experience, but metaphorically speaking, as the spiritual wing of imperialism. The declared aim of missionaries in the nineteenth


Natal Society Foundation · 1 January 2020 English

The journalist Mary Elizabeth Martens (1870–1939), who had grown up in the Colony of Natal under Responsible Government, published two novels in 1911 and 1915: A Woman of Small Account …

approach to race and a new, critical attitude to imperialism.57 Hardy’s earlier article, published under the


BL: British Library · 18 June 2019 English

Original reference: Syliphone4-672-01. and CEAP608/8480. Record number: 0220/FV/HG


BL: British Library · 18 June 2019 English

Location: Labe. Original reference: Syliphone4-332-09. and CEAP608/6327. Record number: 508/M


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 10 November 2017 English

In the nineteenth century, Freetown, the principal city of the Colony of Sierra Leone, was a cosmopolitan centre which attracted African, European, and American merchants who sought to trade in …

. Freetown: 2011.  Makdisi, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity


Endangered Archives Programme · 16 January 2017 English

This project aims to create an archive of sound recordings released on the Syliphone label, and also to copy unreleased Syliphone studio recordings from their current reel-to-reel format to compact …

citizens of a modern Socialist state, attacking imperialism and advocating the one-party system while providing


University of Cambridge · 9 November 2016

biographies are a rich source for exploring imperial entanglements in East Africa in the age of ‘high imperialism’.


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 23 April 2016 English

While the majority of the slaves from this region were captured on the mainland, the islands off the coast were where the barracoons (holding pens) were primarily located and where …

struggle to liberate themselves from Western imperialism. As it pertains to Du Bois, the Kenyon History


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

APDUSA shows concern in how the Herrenvolk and the Broederbond, and particularly in the Western province, attempts to split-up the Non-Whites into various groups with their own policeman-chiefs. The discussion …

constitute the front line in the defence of imperialism. The rest of the oppressed must turn their backs of agents. APDUSANS recognise that neither imperialism nor South African herrenvolkism will ever assist


DISA: Digital Innovation South Africa · 1 January 2016 English

Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research concentrates on the United Democratic Front and …

state to seize its share of wealth from English imperialism, so Black nationalism, on the whole, aims at


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