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3 giorni fa · Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
4 giorni fa · Gentlemanly capitalism is a theory of New Imperialism first put forward by P. J. Cain and A. G. Hopkins in the 1980s before being fully developed in their 1993 work, British Imperialism. The theory posits that British imperialism was driven by the business interests of the City of London and landed interests.
2 giorni fa · Imperialism. Colonialism. Decolonization. v. t. e. The Great Game was a rivalry between the 19th-century British and Russian empires over influence in Central Asia, primarily in Afghanistan, Persia, and Tibet.
5 apr 2024 · Neocolonialism, the control of less-developed countries by developed countries through indirect means. The term broadly refers to the foreign dependency of former colonies and their colonial-like exploitation by international corporations and financial institutions based in developed countries.
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26 apr 2024 · The reader includes 30 articles that, in Howe’s estimation, have expanded the boundaries of imperial history and is divided into 12 parts that reflect the main themes, theories, concepts and debates associated with the new imperial history.
16 apr 2024 · The Opium Wars arose from China’s attempts to suppress the opium trade. Foreign traders (primarily British) had been illegally exporting opium mainly from India to China since the 18th century, but that trade grew dramatically from about 1820.
25 apr 2024 · Africa and the New Imperialism: European Borders on the African Continent, 1870-1914 This link opens in a new window Covers the history of European colonisation across Africa from the late C19 to the early C20, including rare printed works, diaries and journals, correspondence, maps, photographs, and film footage.
