Colonialism

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Colonialism

• Definition
• political, social, economic, and cultural
  domination of a territory and its peoples by a
  foreign power
• Context (1500s-1900s)
• seeking sources of precious goods
• empire-building, expansion of capitalism,
  Industrial Revolution
• Goals of colonizers
• appropriation of land, labor, natural resources
  plantation economies
• control of trade, taxation, state monopolies
• expansion of markets new infrastructure
• mission civilisatrice civilizing mission

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Impact of Colonialism

• Genocide
• Ethnocide (policies of protection,
  assimilation)
• Contact with indigenous peoples and ethnic groups
• New diseases
• Disruption of subsistence economies and trade
  relations
• Direct rule/indirect rule new power structures
  and categories
• Laws affecting gender family
• Laws affecting customs
• State boundaries multiethnic