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imperialism

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Imperialism is an unequal human and territorial relationship based on ideas of superiority and practices of dominance, and involving the extension of authority and control of one state or people over another. Imperialism may also refer to: Imperialism, ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Imperialism \Im*pe"ri*al*ism\, n. The power or character of an emperor; imperial authority; the spirit of empire. Roman imperialism had divided the world. --C. H. Pearson. The policy, practice, or advocacy of seeking, or acquiescing in, the extension of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1826, "advocacy of empire," originally in a Napoleonic context, also of Rome and of British foreign policy, from imperial + -ism . At times in British usage (and briefly in U.S.) with a neutral or positive sense relating to national interests or the spread ...

Usage examples of imperialism.

Nor would Areopagus or Akropolis be puzzled so much had St Paul preached to them the modern European Christianity with its complicated spirit of all kinds of compromises with Heaven and Hell, compromise with the State, Plutocracy, Nationalism, Imperialism, Conquest, War, Diplomacy, Secular Philosophy, Secular Science, Agnostic Parliaments, Tribal Chauvinism, Education, Officialism, Bureaucracy, etc.

Historically, at least, the Chuang Tzu represented everything the man hated about Han imperialism and cultural arrogance.

No California students today are taught that the Pershing expedition of 1916 against Pancho Villa - the purported locus classicus of Yankee imperialism - actually brought back some Chinese refugees and other exploited people whom American soldiers had saved from certain extermination in Mexico.

Women in modest skirts or slightly unflattering pantsuits, like Jesse Simons, the Deconstructionist, who argued that doping the water supply was embracing the nomadic sign system of Albertine, which of course represented not some empirical astrophysical event, but, rather, a symbolic reaction to the crisis of instability caused by American Imperialism.

International trade has always, hitherto, gone hand in hand with war, imperialism and the ruthless exploitation of industrially backward peoples by the highly industrialized powers.

A place beyond the imperialism that created the slavery and exploitation which has plagued humankind.

In the central portion of the book, Parts 2 and 3, we tell the story of the passage from modernity to postmodernity, or really from imperialism to Empire.

Ameriean businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals who formed the Anti-Imperialist League in 1898 and carried on a long campaign to educate the American public about the horrors of the Philippine war and the evils of imperialism.

The defeats in the Far East have gone a long way towards killing the old conception of imperialism.

For years past the most intelligent imperialists have been in favour of compromising with the Fascists, even if they had to give away a good deal in order to do so, because they have seen that only thus could imperialism be salvaged.

So far we have considered only two of the main activities of the Open Conspiracy, the one being its propaganda of confidence in the possible world commonweal, and the other its immediate practical attempt to systematize resistance to militant and competitive imperialism and nationalism.

Though they captured the imagination of poets and chroniclers—the Knights of the Grail in Parzival were Templars, as were the demonic antiheroes in Ivanhoe —as the Crusades acquired the label of European aggression and imperialism, the Templars became an integral part of their brutal fanaticism.

I gave it up partly because the climate had ruined my health, partly because I already had vague ideas of writing books, but mainly because I could not go on any longer serving an imperialism which I had come to regard as very largely a racket.

But the general weakening of imperialism, and to some extent of the whole British morale, that took place during the nineteen-thirties, was partly the work of the left-wing intelligentsia, itself a kind of growth that had sprouted from the stagnation of the Empire.

It is also true that I gave up that job, partly because it didn't suit me but mainly because I would not any longer be a servant of imperialism.