Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia, Volume 1

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ABC-CLIO, 2003 - 1208 pages
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"The history of the last 500 years is the history of imperialism," writes editor Melvin Page. In the Americas, as a result of imperialist conquest, disease, famine, and war nearly wiped out a population estimated in the tens of millions. Africa was devastated by the slave trade, an integral part of imperialism from the 1400s to the 1800s. In Asia, even though native populations survived, native political institutions were destroyed. Imperialism also forged the two most important ideologies of the last five centuries--racialism and modern nationalism.

In more than 600 essays presented in this three-volume encyclopedia, Page and other leading scholars--historians, political scientists, economists, and sociologists--analyze the origins of imperialism, the many forms it took, and its impact worldwide. They also explore imperialism's bitter legacy: the gross inequities of global wealth and power that divide the former conquerors--primarily Europe, the United States, and Japan--from the people they conquered.

 

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This thematic reference, with an extensive chronology, examines the events, people, places, and ideas that have shaped the world we live in via colonialism. The first two volumes contain alphabetical ... Consulter l'avis complet

Table des matières

A
1
B
45
C
91
D
159
E
179
F
203
G
227
H
247
V
609
W
619
X
639
Y
641
Z
643
Chronologies
647
AustroHungarian Empire
833
Belgian Empire
845

I
271
J
295
K
309
L
325
M
359
N
401
O
437
P
449
Q
489
R
491
S
515
T
569
U
599
British Empire
853
Dutch Empire
939
French Empire
947
German Empire
971
International
985
Italian Empire
1053
Japanese Empire
1055
Ottoman Empire
1071
Russian Empire
1105
Spanish Empire
1107
US Empire
1127
Index
1157
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Page 46 - His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.
Page 229 - The situations referred to in the preceding paragraph include armed conflicts in which peoples are fighting against colonial domination and alien occupation and against racist regimes in the exercise of their right of self-determination, as enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations...
Page 440 - American factories are making more than the American people can use; American soil is producing more than they can consume. Fate has written our policy for us; the trade of the world must and shall be ours.
Page 134 - autonomous communities within the British Empire, equal in status, in no way subordinate to one another in any aspect of their domestic or external affairs, though united by a common allegiance to the Crown and freely associated as members of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Page 497 - But, if you do not do this, and maliciously make delay in it, I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter into your country, and shall make war against you in all ways and manners that we can, and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church and of their Highnesses...
Page 230 - Reaffirmation and Development of International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts, convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross in 1971, and of the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, convened by the Swiss Federal Council in 1974.
Page 330 - I conceive that land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living and countless members are still unborn'.
Page 286 - Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Melvin E. Page, PhD, is professor of history at East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN.

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