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colonialism

Control by one power over a dependent area or people. The purposes of colonialism include economic exploitation of the colony's natural resources, creation of new markets for the colonizer, and extension of the colonizer's way of life beyond its national borders. The most active practitioners were European countries; in the years 1500–1900, Europe colonized all of North and South America and Australia, most of Africa, and much of Asia by sending settlers to populate the land or by taking control of governments. The first colonies were established in the Western Hemisphere by the Spanish and Portuguese in the 15th–16th century. The Dutch colonized Indonesia in the 16th century, and Britain colonized North America and India in the 17th–18th century. Later British settlers colonized Australia and New Zealand. Colonization of Africa only began in earnest in the 1880s, but by 1900 virtually the entire continent was controlled by Europe. The colonial era ended gradually after World War II; the only territories still governed as colonies today are small islands. See also decolonization, dependency, imperialism.

colonialism

the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas

Larry Diamond, a former official with the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) which governed Iraq in the two years after the ouster of Saddam's Sunni/Ba'thist dictatorship, says: "This is a really bad idea, one that will only feed the image of the US as the occupier, the colonial power.

Permanent US Stay? by APS Diplomat Fate of the Arabian Peninsula

The thematic chapters--covering themes such as globalization and economic change, modes of production, consolidation of colonial power and centralization of state authority, channels of change and depression and war in the late colonial era--are most interesting, because they attempt to scan broader patterns of social change in the region in more novel ways than the country-based chapters.

The Emergence of Modern Southeast Asia: A New History by Mcgregor, Katharine / Pacific Affairs

Among those who have claimed dominion are the Arabs, who named the two-and-a-half-square-mile rock that creates the strait Gibel Tariq, after the eighth-century general whose military victory paved the way for the taking of Al Andalus; the Spanish, whose fifteenth-century reconquista led to both the rise of a great colonial power and to the expulsion of Muslims and Jews; and the British, who have held possession of the rock and parts of the strait since the early eighteenth century.

Border crossings by Israel, Nico / Artforum International

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