Imperialism Research Papers Samples For Students

Introduction

Colonialism is a domination practise where people or nations are economically and politically subjugated. In the western tradition, colonialism legitimacy remains one of the longstanding concern especially to moral philosophers as well as the politicians. Colonial expansion was on only a preserve of genuine colonial powers for instance Spain and England only since the transfer process has shown that even other colonisers who came in late, for instance Germany also took part in this process of political expansion. The process is known to be one of the historical one where Europe shaped the history of the world decisively as well as ...

What is Imperialism?

Imperialism refers to the practice of a powerful nation occupying a weaker nation and taking charge of its politics, economy and culture. Post industrial revolution, it had been a common tactic implemented by European nations to subjugate the people and places of a less powerful nation through colonization. Examples of imperialism include British colonization of India for 200 years, Japan colonization over the West Pacific before World War I and so on.

Effects of Imperialism on Africa

At the peak of Industrial Revolution in Europe, a string of European nations including Great Britain, Germany, Portugal, Spain, Russia and France discovered Africa as a rich source for raw materials and they ...

Abstract

The Globalization and the Mass Media are inseparable phenomena’s. As the role of Media around the world expanded, the transformation of people and knowledge is expanding as well, thus creating a global village as described by scholars and authors of globalization. The world is a global village, and several aspects of life are integrated because of this phenomenon.
The role of both globalization and media affects several aspects such as politics, international relations, economics, and cultures. Culture is the essence of any society, and it is a big part of the identity and nationality. As the role of globalization managed ...

Imperialism can simply be defined as the domination of a particular country’s economic, social and political life by another more powerful country. It is the act of extending control and authority through direct or indirect territorial conquest to a foreign country with the aim of dominating their economy and political structures. Imperialism was rampant in Africa especially in the late 19th and early 20th century. In an attempt to grow its economy and for reasons of battling for superiority, Europe’s superpowers stretched their efforts into Africa since it was an easy target to control. Africa by then was not ...

Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’ is an affluent, paradoxical, vivid and layered novella, which combines autobiography with travelogue, adventure story, political satire, black comedy and spiritual melodrama. The novel was written in the latter half of the 19th century and is regarded as one of the pioneer’s of the imperial art. . The plot deals with a journey into darkest Africa, a region recognized as the ‘Congo-free State’ by the Berlin Conference of 1885, the private possession of King Leopold II of Belgium. Conrad depicts in ‘Heart of Darkness’, the ways in which men in Africa served, and died ruthlessly ...

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Introduction
The paper will present theories, and it will discuss the difference between those theories. Some of the differences and similarities will be presented. There will be three theories in this paper Marxism theory, Rosa Luxemburg Theory, and Lenin Theory. Within this paper, Lenin Theory will be used for differentiation of other theories. In addition, the practical approach of other Linen theory will be described, and criticism in other theories about Linen Theory will also be presented.

Marxism Theory

Talking about the Marxism Theory it should be noted that Karl Marx presents it. It can be said that ...

New Imperialism

In the history of human civilization, one of the main tendencies was supremacy of certain classes or states over the others. In this or that way, some states were more advanced in technological and conceptual development than others. The difference in developmental perspectives and simple inconsistency in ethno-cultural traditions were leading to unequal position of states on the world arena. The best example of such inequality was the phenomenon of imperialism. While the first wave of imperialism was relatively homogenous in its nature, the second wave or new imperialism was characterized by diversity of approaches and subsequent consequences mainly ...

1.The age of hope
The keys to understanding of present and future, as a rule, inextricably linked with the understanding of human past. Imperialism has long been a dominant force in the history of human civilization. Imperialism is inseparable from the colonial policies, the seizure of new territories and the exploitation of indigenous peoples. Someone inclined to regard imperialism as a purely negative phenomenon, but it’s worth noting that it also had some positive effects. At the end of the XVII century Britain and France have entered the group of the most powerful nations. It was the beginning ...

Introduction

NATO or the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an agreement between participating countries to support and give assistance to other allied countries who have signed treaty to the agreement. This concept of supporting each other and giving each member a sense of security when it comes to attacking elements from external parties give members of the organization a chance to grow and give attention to aspects of development without necessarily being fully or over-concerned about how they are going to fair in case military operations rise against them. Considerably, NATO’s role is to serve as the safety-net that every country ...

According to Hitchens, the term ‘super-power’ seemed to drawn the thoughts of many colonial masters as they sought to spread their influence in as large a geographical area as possible. This drive for dominance is otherwise referred to as imperialism and was the notion driving colonial powers to seek for influence. It is this fight for power that led to the world wars as well as the Cold war. America, on its part, assumed a neutral position in these matters. However, it got drawn into these issues in one way or another. It gradually got entangled into the imperialism regime.

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Throughout the course of modern history, numerous events have revolved around the Middle East, affecting the cultural perspectives of the people living there. For instance, the Russian invasion of Afghanistan and the subsequent political maneuvering by Western/Arab nations spawned decades of bloodshed in the region, destroying both an entire generation of people and the viability of a nation. The creation of Israel in 1948 created a massive power shift in the region, as the Arab nations attempted to retake the territory but were soundly defeated, and again in 1967. The Second World War engulfed the North African Muslim countries, ...

Introduction

The Berlin Conference of 1884 to 1885 which is also referred to as the Congo Conference signified a powerful role in the regulation of European colonization as well as free trade in parts of Africa during the period of neo-imperialism. One of the outward goals of the conference was to implement regulations on the rampant colonization of Africa in order to prevent the military conflict between the colonizing states. It is to be noted that colonial powers went into what historians coined as the ‘Scramble for Africa’, where they decided to invade, occupy, divide and colonize the different parts ...

Colonization is the process whereby one powerful country invades and takes control of another foreign territory. The occupying country, then subjects the inhabitants of the captured territory and places them under its dominion. They can as well get treated as slaves working under very tough conditions with limited or no pay at all. The colonizers on the other hand freely utilize and extract resources with no restriction.

The German empire

In the late 19th century Germany was a growing industrial and economic power. By that time, they had made massive gains in their processing and manufacturing industries. As a result, the country’ ...

Joseph Conrad (his real name was Jozef Korzeniowski) is a classic of English literature of the twentieth century. He was born in the Russian Empire into a family of Polish patriots, who took part in anti-government protests. In 1874 he fled to Marseilles to become a cabin boy on a French merchant ship and three years later, while sailing in the Pacific Ocean, began to learn English. Over time, he became captain in the British passenger fleet. The marine experience gave Conrad the material for his literary works. After retiring, he devoted himself wholly to literature and in the mid-nineties began to publish ...

Pluralism is the notion that reality is comprised of several components. It basically postulates that there is more than one alternative to any problem. Hence, there is no such thing that is perfect or absolute and everything is relative in terms of the other. Cultural pluralism stands for the validity of diverse cultures. As Slick (n.d.) points out, this idea contradicts the teachings of the Bible that there is one almighty God (Isaiah 43:10;44:6; 45:5) and that Christianity is the truly revealed religion.
Charles Haynes (1994) had once said, “How will we live with our deepest differences?” ( ...

Working as a labour may although act as a source of income for a lot of people proving out to be a boon but are all the dimensions of labour as attractive as it appears to be? No of course not! There are a lot of angles which need to be examined through the lens of justifications with respect to the frames such as socio economic factors, the will of labour, unawareness of the labour and the most important one being ‘Human Rights’. Labour surely acts as a highlighting factor for the inception of any productive work. Be it a factory establishment or an organisational setup, ...

Abstract

The Black Panther Partywas an American black revolutionary movement formed in 1966 in Oakland, California. Its founders were Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. The group was originally named Black Panther Party for Self-Defense.The Black Panther Party patrolled black ghettoes with loaded firearms and protected its residents from police harassment and brutality.The group, later, evolved into a revolutionary group pressing for black Americans equality andnon-exploitative environment.In 1967, the Party gained a reputation through its large membership reaching up to 2000 members. Like in a collective identity, the group was a forum through which they could articulate their needs. The party had engaged in persistent ...

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Introduction
China is home to the most ancient and enduring human civilization. This civilization flourished for thousands of years and have survived through many succession of rulers and dynasties. The study of China’s civilization is important in order to understand China’s contemporary society. Chinese civilization can be categorized into three broad historical periods: ancient China, Imperial China and modern China. These periods, however, only serves as an imaginary partition in order to identify a certain time in the history of China. But in reality, Chinese civilization is continuous and was never interrupted even through there ...

Introduction

It is noteworthy to study about the past labor and political economy of Japan, as its transformation to what it is today is too different from what it was in the past. Japan has successfully reinvented itself, from one that used to be a closed political economy, into a country that is now open to world economic integration. Despite its economic stagnation in the past few years, Japan remains to be one of the world’s greatest powers, and this can be attributed to decades of political and economic choices that fostered its miracle growth. One of the critical ...

The modern world is changing up so quickly, and getting connected with a really crucial speed. One of such sufficient processes is globalization. Globalization in simple terms is usually known as the process during which the world is transformed into a single unified system.
At the end of the last century, globalization has become a hot topic for debates all around the world and it has not yet stopped. However, globalization is not a new process, since it implies the integration of the economic, cultural, political and religious spheres. Today globalization caused both positive and negative consequences and this ...

Deng Xiaoping on the Anti-rightist Campaign of 1957

As the secretary general of the CCP in 1957, Deng Xiaoping supported the advocacy of Mao Zedong towards the Anti-Rightist Movement. It was through Deng’s leadership that anti-rightist movements were implemented (Deng, 408). In his report as the secretary general, he pointed out that the emergence of the difficulties within the Party was rooted from social and ideological causes: a) First, a large number of the Party members do not belong from the working class; b) there was the rapid growth of the Party, but quality was neglected which resulted from the ideological and political acts to lag ...

Congress at the time, asked Thomas Jefferson and others to author a declaration of independence. The leadership at needed a document that stated why it was necessary for America’s independence of the British colony. Jefferson wrote down what he thought many Americans thought about the rights they should have. The declaration explains why the colonies needed to break away from the British colonies. The documents claim that people have freedoms and rights that should not and cannot be taken away. Additionally, the document lists the complaints against the King and that the colonised have to be free in ...

Jules Verne is arguably one of the most prescient science-fiction authors in history – his works are remembered for their vast imagination and endlessly prescient views into the future of science and the exciting nature of their adventures. One of his most well known works, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, is on its surface a fantastical tale of a group of men who stumble upon the secret submarine Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. However, closer examination of the novel itself reveals Verne’s penchant for social commentary and intricate political subtext, as 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea becomes a ...

If you look at anthologies containing the most highly reputed short stories within Western literature, James Joyce’s complicated tale “The Dead” will generally appear somewhere in the collections. This story is actually the concluding chapter in a group of connected tales inside the book Dubliners, and this story looks at the ideas of autonomy and identity with a consideration of imperialism, patriarchy and language, and the ways in which those three elements have influenced life in the twentieth century. There are close connections between those issues and the centuries-long turbulence that has wracked the politics of Ireland, as well as ...

I. Introduction
The Arab-Israeli conflict may seem to be one of the longest-lasting international feuds of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, but in reality the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is rooted in actions and changes that took place only in the late nineteenth century. The conflict itself only truly came to a head after World War II made significant socio-political changes to the makeup of certain countries in the Middle East, effectively throwing off political and social power balances and provoking chaos and violence in the region. According to Riedel, the violence of the Arab-Israeli conflict has ...

Question 1

Otto Von Bismarck was a renowned German nationalist who rose through the ranks to become the Prime Minister of Prussia and later went to become the first Chancellor of the unified German Empire in 1871. He came into power when modern day Germany was split up into different regions. Using the powerful Prussian army, Bismarck initiated fierce and decisive wars with Austria, France and Denmark to unite the 39 sovereign German states and regions under Prussian leadership.

Question 2

The National Liberal Party – This was the most renowned party and was mainly made up of national liberals who supported Bismarck and his ...

George Orwell was the surname of Arthur Blair who was a political change fighter and advocate, literally critic, novelist and an essayist. The reasons to why he changed his name is not known. Blair was born in Eastern India in a region namely Bengal, in June 25, 1903. This area was largely dominated by the British. His parents were Ida Mabel Blair and Richard Walmesley Blair who were civil servants (Merriman 5). However, his mother later moved with him together with his sister to England in an effort bettering their lives. Blair was a bright student and managed to win a scholarship to ...

The history of American foreign policy is closely linked with the history of the Monroe Doctrine. Not by chance the eminent American historian William Williams has repeatedly stressed in his writings that the Monroe Doctrine, and in particular the doctrine based on the policy of "open doors", defined the expansionist ideology of American foreign policy over the last hundred years.
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Introduction

It is not in doubt that both World War One and World War Two left an indelible mark on the global landscape both literary and otherwise. The two world wars were momentous events throughout the history of human civilization. Millions of lives of soldiers and civilians were lost during the two wars. Very many crimes against humanity were committed during the two wars. However, the two wars served as important catalysts in the transformation of the political and socio-economic environment around the world and Europe in particular. The two wars accelerated the downfall of many feudal kingdoms that existed ...

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Abstract

African leaders have failed the very people who put them into power. Over the past years, cases of betrayal by the petty bourgeoisies have been rampant across Africa. What this paper seeks to find is the people to blame for the miseries of Africans. The researcher aims to discuss in details the place of the African petty bourgeoisies using available literature into the topic. This paper also offers a conclusion into the topic with a possible solution to the end of the ill practice.

Introduction

It has widely been said that African leaders have failed so much in their leadership ...