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  2. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    Exploitation colonialism is a form of colonization where foreign armies conquer a country in order to control and capitalize on its natural resources and indigenous population. Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson argue, "institutions [established by colonials] did not introduce much protection for private property, nor did they provide checks and ...

  3. Colonialism - Wikipedia

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    A factory entrepôt, a basic example of colonialism illustrating its different elements, hierarchies and impact on the land and people (the Dutch V.O.C. factory in Hugli-Chuchura, Bengal, in 1665) Colonialism is the advancement of control over and exploitation of land and people by separation, through another and often foreign group.

  4. Colonial mentality - Wikipedia

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    A colonial mentality is an internalized ethnic, linguistic, or cultural inferiority complex imposed on peoples as a result of colonization, i.e. being invaded and conquered by another nation state and then being gaslit, often through the educational system, into linguistic imperialism and cultural assimilation [1] through an instilled belief that the language and culture of the colonizer are ...

  5. History of colonialism - Wikipedia

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    Postcolonialism is a term used to recognize the continued and troubling presence and influence of colonialism within the period designated as after-the-colonial. It refers to the ongoing effects that colonial encounters, dispossession and power have in shaping the familiar structures (social, political, spatial, uneven global interdependencies ...

  6. Postcolonialism - Wikipedia

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    The term post-colonialism is also applied to denote the Mother Country's neocolonial control of the decolonized country, affected by the legalistic continuation of the economic, cultural, and linguistic power relationships that controlled the colonial politics of knowledge (i.e., the generation, production, and distribution of knowledge) about ...

  7. Western imperialism in Asia - Wikipedia

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    None of the colonial powers, however, possessed the resources to withstand the strains of both World Wars and maintain their direct rule in Asia. Although nationalist movements throughout the colonial world led to the political independence of nearly all of Asia's remaining colonies, decolonization was intercepted by the Cold War.

  8. Imperialism - Wikipedia

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    Colonialism is the builder and preserver of the colonial possessions in an area by a population coming from a foreign region. [ 18 ] : 173–76 Colonialism can completely change the existing social structure, physical structure, and economics of an area; it is not unusual that the characteristics of the conquering peoples are inherited by the ...

  9. American imperialism - Wikipedia

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    This can be considered to be an explicitly colonial process in light of arguments that Native American nations were sovereign entities prior to annexation. [36] Their sovereignty was systematically undermined by US state policy (usually involving unequal or broken treaties) and white settler-colonialism. [37]