Who started colonialism?

If you are assuming that it was an European nation in the middle ages, the answer is much further back in history than that! Greeks founded other colonies, including Carthage. Romans colonized territories. read more

Postcolonialism is a term used to recognise the continued and troubling presence and influence of colonialism within the period we designate 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) of the present world. read more

If you are assuming that it was an European nation in the middle ages, the answer is much further back in history than that! Greeks founded other colonies, including Carthage. read more

Colonialism is a practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another. One of the difficulties in defining colonialism is that it is hard to distinguish it from imperialism. read more