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Colonialism is a practice by which a one group of people, social construct, or nation state controls, directs, or imposes taxes or tribute on other people or areas, often by establishing colonies, generally for strategic and economic advancement of the colonizing group or construct. There is no clear definition of colonialism; definitions may vary depending on the use and context.Colonialism is etymologically rooted in the Latin word "Colonus", which was used to describe tenant farmers in the Roman Empire. The coloni sharecroppers started as tenants of landlords, but the system evolved so they were permanently indebted to the landowner and were trapped in servitude. Colonialism has existed since ancient times. In the modern period, the concept is most strongly associated with the European and Japanese empires, starting in the 15th century and extending to the mid-1900s. At first, conquest followed policies of mercantilism, aiming to strengthen the home-country economy, so agreements usually restricted the colony to trading only with the metropole (mother country). By the mid-19th century, many empires gave up mercantilism and trade restrictions and adopted the principle of free trade, with few restrictions or tariffs. Missionaries were active in practically all of the European-controlled colonies because the metropoles were Christian. Historian Philip Hoffman calculated that by 1800, before the Industrial Revolution, Europeans already controlled at least 35% of the globe, and by 1914, they had gained control of 84% of the globe. In the aftermath of World War II colonial powers retreated between 1945 and 1975; over which time nearly all colonies gained independence, entering into changed colonial, so-called postcolonial and neocolonialist relations. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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Die vergessene Ausbeutung
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Against White Feminism
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Travelling while Black
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Ténèbre
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Kivenmurskaajat
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The Other Slavery
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Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism
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Weiße Weiblichkeiten: Konstruktionen von „Rasse“ und Geschlecht im deutschen Kolonialismus
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Under Three Flags: Anarchism and the Anti-Colonial Imagination
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The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages
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Archaeology and colonialism: contact from 5000 BC to the present
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Zulu
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La France et l'Algérie en guerre : 1830-1870, 1954-1962
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Basta!
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Le mal de peau
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Onitsha
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Amkoullel l'Enfant Peul
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La Mujer Habitada
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The Malayan Trilogy
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The Wretched of the Earth
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The War of the Worlds
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The Word for World Is Forest
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Asia Reborn: A Continent Rises from the Ravages of Colonialism and War to a New Dynamism
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Figli dello stesso cielo : il razzismo e il colonialismo raccontati ai ragazzi
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Jung-Deutschland in Afrika : Kolonial-Erzählungen für jung und alt
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Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature
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Les bouts de bois de Dieu
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Repenser le colonialisme
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