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  2. Imperialism - Wikipedia

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    Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism). Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintaining hegemony and a more or less formal empire.

  3. Geography and Imperialism - Wikipedia

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    The knowledge that formed the initial subject of geography was achieved through European expansionism. [1] This includes information on the lands and seas of the earth, its flora and fauna as well as its peoples. [1] It is unsurprising then, that many geographers during the time of European territorial expansion, were in favour of imperialism. [4]

  4. Cultural imperialism - Wikipedia

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    These scholars operated primarily in the disciplines of history, economics, geography, and literature." [ 73 ] In the area of music, Michael Kater writes that during the WWII German occupation of France, Hans Rosbaud , a German conductor based by the Nazi regime in Strasbourg , became "at least nominally, a servant of Nazi cultural imperialism ...

  5. Theories of imperialism - Wikipedia

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    Lenin's argument differs from previous writers in that rather than viewing imperialism as a distinct policy of certain countries and states (as Bukharin had done, for example), [59] he saw imperialism as a new historical stage in capitalist development, and all imperialist policies were simply characteristic of this stage. The progression into ...

  6. Postcolonialism - Wikipedia

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    This approach may overlap with studies of contemporary history, and may also draw examples from anthropology, historiography, political science, philosophy, sociology, and human geography. Sub-disciplines of postcolonial studies examine the effects of colonial rule on the practice of feminism , anarchism , literature , and Christian thought .

  7. Eurocentrism - Wikipedia

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    The assumption of European exceptionalism is widely reflected in popular genres of literature, especially in literature for young adults (for example, Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel Kim [20]) and in adventure-literature in general. Portrayal of European colonialism in such literature has been analysed in terms of Eurocentrism in retrospect, such ...

  8. Analysis of European colonialism and colonization - Wikipedia

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    An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973), very detailed outline; 6th edition ed. by Peter Stearns (2001) has more detail on Third World; McAlister, Lyle N. Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492–1700 (1984) Ness, Immanuel and Zak Cope, eds. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism (2 vol 2015), 1456pp

  9. American imperialism - Wikipedia

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    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.