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An empire is a large, composite, multi-ethnic or multinational political unit, usually created by conquest, and divided between a dominant center and subordinate, sometimes far distant, peripheries.
Imperialism is used to mean the actions and attitudes which create or uphold such big political units – but also less obvious and direct kinds of control or domination by one person or country over others.
— Mar 20, 2020 11:27PM
Imperialism is used to mean the actions and attitudes which create or uphold such big political units – but also less obvious and direct kinds of control or domination by one person or country over others.
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The Islamic militants who attacked New York and Washington on 9/11 believed they were striking a blow against imperialism. To most Americans and Europeans, such a claim seemed utterly grotesque. But many people in poorer countries, even if they did not approve of these murderous acts, seemed to understand very well what the attackers said they were about.
— Mar 20, 2020 11:32PM
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Colonialism is something more specific and strictly political: systems of rule by one group over another, where the first claims the right to exercise exclusive sovereignty over the second and to shape its destiny.
— Mar 20, 2020 11:31PM
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A great deal of the world’s history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all history is imperial – or colonial – history.
— Mar 20, 2020 11:02PM
