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The word imperialism originated from the Latin word imperium, [7] which means "to command", "to be sovereign", or simply "to rule". [8] The word “imperialism” was first produced in the 19th century to decry Napoleon III's despotic militarism and his attempts at obtaining political support through foreign military interventions.
The Liberal Imperialists were a faction within the British Liberal Party in the late 1890s and early 1900s, united by views regarding the policy toward the British Empire. They supported the Second Boer War which a majority of Liberals opposed, and wanted the Empire ruled on a more benevolent basis.
The Anti-Imperialists, A Web based guide to American Anti-Imperialism. CWIHP at the Wilson Center for Scholars: Primary Document Collection on Anti-Imperialism in the Cold War Archived 2011-06-05 at the Wayback Machine. Pacific Northwest Antiwar and Radical History Project, multimedia collection of photographs, video, oral histories and essays.
The American Anti-Imperialist League was an organization established on June 15, 1898, to battle the American annexation of the Philippines as an insular area.The anti-imperialists opposed forced expansion, believing that imperialism violated the fundamental principle that just republican government must derive from "consent of the governed".
Articles relating to anti-imperialists, people opposed to imperialism or neocolonialism. Anti-imperialist sentiment typically manifests as a political principle in independence struggles against intervention or influence from a global superpower, as well as in opposition to colonial rule.
1898 political cartoon: "Ten thousand miles from tip to tip."referring to the expansion of American domination (symbolized by a bald eagle) from Puerto Rico to the Philippines following the Spanish–American War; the cartoon contrasts this with a map showing the significantly smaller size of the United States in 1798, exactly 100 years earlier.
An instruction guide written in the same satiric tradition as The Screwtape Letters and Report From Iron Mountain, this book by the libertarian economists Christopher Coyne and Abigail Hall draws ...
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.