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From the daring adventurers sailing across the Atlantic in search of the riches of the East to the first wave of European settlers on America's shores, colonialism played a major role in the formation of our modern-day country. Colonialism covers the nine key concepts of colonialism: colonies, economics and trade, European nations, explorers and conquerors, government, Native Americans, people and society, religion, and wars and battles. With an in-depth explanation of the history of colonization, beginning with early world exploration, readers will learn about the most important figures, even

Many governments throughout history have seized lands in other places in order to rule them from afar. These lands exist mainly to profit the home country, and provide a place where settlers can populate the land without regard to the native inhabitants. The home country exercises control over the colony and drains it of resources. Colonies located in America, India, South Africa, and Vietnam are examined in depth. Carefully chosen documents and images illuminate the long lasting effects of colonial governments on both the home country and the colonized lands.

Introduction.--Aperçu geÌneÌral de la colonisation contemporaine.--Les causes du colonialisme.--Guerres et reÌvoltes.--Le couÌ't des colonies.--La condition des indigeÌ€nes.--Le commerce coloniale.--Le colonialisme et le militarisme.--Le colonialisme et la reÌvolution mondiale. ; Mode of access: Internet.

This book examines 'eternal colonialism,' which describes policies designed by the Western world and United States to keep most of the world in a permanently subordinate political, economic, social, and military state. The authors argue that colonialism beginning in the fifteenth century never ended, but developed different forms over time

This week we ask: what are the wider impacts and legacies of colonialism, and how can we go about resisting them?

For a time it was almost a cliche to say that anthropology was a handmaiden of colonialism - by which was usually meant 'Western' colonialism. And this insinuation was assumed to somehow weaken the theoretical claims of anthropology and its fieldwork achievements.What this collection demonstrates is that colonialism was not only a Western phenomenon, but 'Eastern' as well. And that Japanese or Chinese anthropologists were also engaged in studying subject peoples.But wherever they were and whoever they were anthropologists always had a complex and problematic relationship with the colonial stat