Colonialism

Japanese Colonialism North and South Korea are nations that while filled with contempt for Japan have used the foundations that Japan laid during the colonial period to further industrialization. Japan’s…

Abstract Nigeria is a very interesting country to analyze either for the economists and policymakers. After gaining the independence in 1959, Nigeria ambitiously aspired to established democratic government and to…

Shaun Tan and John Marsden’s picture book, “The Rabbits” both portray conflicting perspectives that are shaped from past events. Tan and Marsden’s “The Rabbits” uses the British Colonization as the…

In this essay, there shall be an exploration into whether independence movements represented the interests of their middle-class leaders and not of the rural poor. First, the definition of class…

A common theme running through all the readings assigned for this course, such as “The Dew Breaker” by Haitian-American author, Edwidge Danticat, and “Crick Crack, Monkey” by Trinidadian Merle Hodge,…

British colonialism affected Kenya in many ways: politically, socially, economically, and culturally. Colonialism occurs when one nation takes control of another. There are many effects after colonialism has occurred and…

Having worked with Postcolonial Theory for well over a decade now, I recognize that not all postcolonialists are on the same page when it comes to the theoretical definition or…

From the outset, the English colonies population rapidly grew, along with the different kinds of people of diverse nationalities that had come from all over Europe for the freedom not…

Conrad’s “Heart of Darkness” and Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” are two significant and well-known works treating colonialism in Africa. When reading these two stories, one cannot help but realize that…

This article contains fast facts and information about the Causes of the American Revolutionary War. What were the Causes of the American Revolutionary War? Good question. There was a whole…

European colonization effected Africa negatively, as it resulted in the continent being taken advantage of, people and resources exploited, and their economical standpoint being very low. By looking at Africa’s…

During the colonization of Africa, which was at it’s peak in the 18th and 19th century, the European powers of the time indulged in activities that changed and still continues…

The history of the modern and westernized Japan has been written, revised and re-written for many years. In the early 1980s, Mark Peattie and Ramon Myers edited a volume by…

The novel Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is not a critique of European colonialism and imperialism in the post-colonial term. Certainly when the novel was published the colonialism was…

Mary Rowlandson was a devote puritan who was captured by Native Americans, along with her children and other settlers. “The Sovereignty and Goodness of God” was the narrative she wrote…

Colonialism is the policy of domination pursued by the European powers starting in the fifteenth century and extending to the mid twentieth century. During this period European countries began to…

There were many reasons for the settlers why the settlers to choose to leave their home and go to a strange new land to form colonies. Among them are religious…

In the early to mid-17th two of the first charter colonies in America were Jamestown and Plymouth. These colonies were very different, Jamestown was founded to find gold in the…

Throughout the history of the United States, her ideas of expansion were altered. According to certain views, expansionism did not change in the late nineteenth-century to the early twentieth-century while…

During the 1800s and early 1900s, a wave of imperialism swept over Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. The Western nations, pursuing new raw materials, established control, and became very…