Category: Colonialism
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Jules Ferry’s Speech on French Colonial Expansion
Table of Contents Need of France for Colonies Arguments Against Ferry’s Imperialism Non-Economic Arguments in Favor of Imperialism Conclusions References Jules Ferry, a politician of the early Third Republic, is famous for his strategy of secular education and the fruitful extension of France as a colonial empire. He served as the Prime Minister of France…
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Mission to Mars: Problems of Mars Colonization
It would be challenging for humans to live on Mars for a large number of reasons. Cabrol and Grin (2018) cite “low and widely varying temperature, low atmospheric pressure, low water activity, and high ultraviolet and ionizing radiation” as the primary causes of the planet’s inhospitality. To enable life on Mars, it would be necessary…
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African Resistance to Colonialism and Colonial Economies
African Resistance to Colonialism The African history is closely associated with European colonization, which was mainly caused by the economic, religious, and political factors. To acquire larger territories of Africa, Europeans employed various means of suppressing the local population and supported it with the so-called mission of making Africa a civilized nation. In fact, they…
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Carol Berkin’s Book “First Generations: Women in Colonial America”
Table of Contents Introduction Discussion Conclusion Works Cited Introduction Colonial America was never meant to be easy for the life of people. Survival was an appropriate synonym to describe the burdens of the ordinary existence of colonized individuals. Indeed, women of colonial America had to withstand enormous struggles such as oppression and gender discrimination. Experiences…
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Settler Colonialism and Indigenous People’s Rights
Table of Contents Abstract Introduction Literature Review Discussion Conclusions Bibliography Footnotes Abstract The Israeli-Palestine conflict remains one of the most inflexible upheavals in the world today. Many Palestinians have been forced to leave their ancestral lands due to the ongoing settler colonialism project promoted by the government of Israel. Using the concepts outlined by Edward…
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International Development, Colonialism, Social Inequality and Class Stratification
Table of Contents Colonialism Types of colonization Evaluation of colonization Social class stratification Social inequalities International development Works Cited Colonialism This is the situation where a country extends its national sovereignty over land beyond its borders. This is by establishment of settler colonies or administrative representatives in which the native populations are ruled directly or…
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Slavery in Colonial America
Colonial America is one of the countries which actively practiced slaves trading. Initially, the first slaves were brought into America by British colonialists. This event marked the beginning of the British and American transatlantic slave trade. From 1619 to 1860, about 600 thousand African slaves were forcibly brought into the United States (Fullerton et al.,…
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Issue of Racism in Colonial Haiti
The understanding of racism in Haiti, at the time called St. Domingue, was different even among the people at the time. In the book, The Haitian Revolution by David Geggus, two examples of contemporary writing on the matter of discrimination are presented. The first account is presented by Henri-Baptiste Grégoire in his “Mémoire en faveur…
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The NASA Space Colonization Plans
It is important to note that with the recent advancements in astrophysics, aerospace engineering, and astronomy, the topic of human space colonization is no longer considered as far-fetched but rather a realistic goal. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is actively working on the project of Mars colonization. However, there are concerns about the…
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The Lifestyle of 18th Century Women in Colonial Ads
The study of newspaper advertisements in the colonial territories helps to draw detailed conclusions about the lifestyle of women in the 18th century. The essential proclamation of the bourgeois revolution, adopted in 1776, did not include women among those who have unalienable rights as human beings, liberty, and the common good. Many years before the…