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3 days ago · Illustration representing Cecil Rhodes' plan of building railways across Africa, connecting Cape Town and Cairo, aimed at extending the British Empire. Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural ...
Mar 28, 2024 · Imperialism in ancient times is clear in the history of China and in the history of western Asia and the Mediterranean—an unending succession of empires. The tyrannical empire of the Assyrians was replaced (6th–4th century bce) by that of the Persians, in strong contrast to the Assyrian in its liberal treatment of subjected peoples, assuring it long duration.
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- What is imperialism in history?Imperialism is the state policy, practice, or advocacy of extending power and dominion, especially by direct territorial acquisition or by gaining...
- Does imperialism still exist today?Today the term imperialism is commonly used in international propaganda to denounce and discredit an opponent’s foreign policy. International organ...
- Did imperialism cause World War I?Following the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869, European nations sought to extend their economic and political power overseas, especially in Afric...
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Apr 11, 2024 · Historians led by Eli Heckscher have identified Mercantilism as the central economic policy for the empire before the shift to free trade in the 1840s. Mercantilism is an economic theory practice, commonly used in Britain, France and other major European nations from the 16th to the 18th century that promoted governmental regulation of a nation's economy for the purpose of augmenting state ...
Apr 12, 2024 · The new imperial history in the singular, he adds, is thus misleading and ‘we should pluralise it and speak instead of fresh, creative histories of imperialism’ (p. 3). Thus his aims in compiling this reader are to gather together some of the most important, influential and controversial work that has been labelled ‘new imperial history’.
3 days ago · The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet. The two colonial empires used military interventions and diplomatic negotiations to acquire and redefine territories in Central and South Asia. Russia conquered Turkestan, and Britain ...
Apr 9, 2024 · J. A. Hobson’s (1902), condemned empire as capitalists’ quest for markets in a context where the population at home was paid too little to buy industry’s products. It was a remediable flaw, one that could be corrected by the redistribution of wealth. In contrast, V.I. Lenin’s (1916) portrayed imperialism as intrinsic to the capitalist ...
3 days ago · Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 This link opens in a new window Covers the history of European colonisation across Africa from the late C19 to the early C20, including rare printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage. Also includes guides to the ...
