Types of Colonialism
An overview of Belgium's role in African colonialism and the impact of that colonialism on Africa today. An overview of Belgium's role in African colonialism and the impact of that colonialism on Africa today.
By 1913, the British Empire held sway over 412 million people, 23% of the world population at the time, and by 1920, it covered 35,500,000 km 2 (13,700,000 sq mi), 24% of the Earth's total land area. As a result, its political, legal, linguistic and cultural legacy is widespread.
Scandinavian colonialism is a subdivision within broader colonial studies that discusses the role of Scandinavian nations in achieving economic benefits from outside of their own cultural sphere.
The French colonial empire constituted the overseas colonies, ... French Colonialism, lecture on the colonial period 1871 to 1914, via Open Yale Courses ...
"German Colonialism in a Global Age is a solid contribution to the study of German imperialism. It expands the study of Germany’s colonialist past beyond earlier scholarship.
The colonial era concluded abruptly and mid-war, without any political or intellectual process. What followed, amid a restructuring of Italy in the wake of fascist collapse and a realignment of Right and Left, was an informational lapse.
JAPAN, COLONIZED (Western Colonialism) Japan was not formally colonized by Western powers, but was a colonizer itself. It has, however, experienced formal semicolonial situations, and modern Japan was profoundly influenced by Western colonialism in wide-ranging ways.
As the largest land empire in history, the Mongol Empire plays an important role in the history of colonialism in China. This section gives an overview of Genghis Khan and the Mongol conquest of China.
The Qing dynasty, also known as the Qing Empire, officially the Great Qing (/ tʃ ɪ ŋ /), was the last imperial dynasty of China, established in 1636 and ruling China from 1644 to 1912. It was preceded by the Ming dynasty and succeeded by the Republic of China.
Russian Tsardom and Empire Territorial development of the Muscovy between 1390 and 1533 The name Russia for the Grand Duchy of Moscow started to appear in the late 15th century and had become common in 1547 when the Tsardom of Russia was created.
Settler colonialism is a form of colonialism which seeks to replace the original population of the colonized territory with a new society of settlers. As with all forms of colonialism, it is based on exogenous domination, typically organized or supported by an imperial authority.
The areas of the world that at one time were territories of the Spanish Monarchy or Empire
The Dutch Empire (Dutch: Het Nederlandse Koloniale Rijk) comprised the overseas colonies, enclaves, and outposts controlled and administered by Dutch chartered companies, mainly the Dutch West India and the Dutch East India Company, and subsequently by the Dutch Republic (1581–1795), and the modern Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1815.
The Umayyad Caliphate became one of the major political, cultural, and scientific centers of the early medieval world. The Umayyads also began the process of spreading Islam throughout Asia, Africa, and Europe.
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK), or informally as Britain, is a sovereign country in western Europe. Lying off the north-western coast of the European mainland, the UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands.
Under Yuan rule the regional music drama that had gone two separate ways during the Song dynasty was intermixed as yuanqu, or “Yuan drama.” Popular song styles became freer than before, and several forms of dancing and acrobatics were added to popular entertainment.