Unit 12:: New Imperialism
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Unit 12: New Imperialism
https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844605.book.part.056

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Abstract

While the practices of conquest and empire building have existed throughout human history, the term imperialism came into use only in the late nineteenth century; it refers to a variety of modes and operations by which one society may dominate and control another. Imperialism includes the traditional direct modes of conquest and subjugation practiced by premodern empires such as the Egyptians, Romans, and Mongols and also such modern indirect modes of influence as mer¬cantilism, semicolonialism, and forced cultural assimilation.

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