difference between colonialism and imperialism ?

Question

what does both these terms means ?

Answer 1

Colonialism: "the control or governing influence of a nation over a dependent country, territory, or people."

Imperialism: " the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies."

They are actually quite similar and each reinforces the other. The act of engaging in colonialism is an imperialistic act, but acts that are imperialistic are not always colonial. For example, (it's the only one I can think of, sorry if it's a bit contentious) some people define some of the America's current actions as imperialistic but they are not colonial. Hopefully that helps makes sense of things a little.

Answer 2

Imperialism Vs Colonialism

Answer 3

Colonialism Vs Imperialism

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Colonialism is a term where a country conquers and rules over other regions. It means exploiting the resources of the conquered country for the benefit of the conqueror. Imperialism means creating an empire, expanding into the neighbouring regions and expanding its dominance far. Colonialism is for resources and imperialism for control on other lands

Answer 6

Imperialism is the source of Colonialism. Imperialism is / was the aggressive, ambitious and relentless attempt by Great Powers through the centuries (Great Britain, Soviet Russia, France, Spain, Portugal, Japan, Italy etc) to establish empire beyond the confines of national boundaries, to conquer and subjugate nations considered 'primitive, weak, inferior, backward, pagan and so forth, and in so doing, strengthen themselves economically, and establish themselves as a formiddable military / naval power - in rivalry with other Great Powers with the same ambitions.

The Great Powers (also Belgium can be included in this) decided to create boundaries (the artificial boundaries that, especially in Africa, have had the legacy of endless brutal, violent and bloody civil wars, because these artificial boundaries created then brought ethnic groups who differed in language, religion, and practises and so forth, into contact with each other who began competing against each other and developed bitter rivalries - many of which have endured on that Continent to this day.)

Military conquest and forced occupation was the final stage of the Imperialist's aggressive strategem. This in turn, would usher in Colonialism, since conquered territories (the spoils of aggressive Imperialism) - now became colonies that became subjects of the ruling Imperial Power. These colonies would have to be governed and administered, and this type differed from colonial / imperial power to another. The Belgians in Belgian Congo, for instance, ruled and administered by Company Rule. Various industries were set up by ambitious Industrialists who basically ruled and administered Congo on behalf of the Belgian Monarchy and Authorities, often brutally. They had free reign to treat the natives as they wanted, and recruit them in mining, mass production in factories, etc.

As Imperial Power declined after the Second World War especially, powers like Great Britain could no longer afford to hold on to their colonies / were ravaged by the effects of the War - especially in Africa, one by one, former colonies gained independence, among these - Ghana, Tunisia, Kenya, etc. In Latin America, Spain and Portugal, after centuries of Imperial and Colonial rule, also gradually weakened, and could not maintain control over their former colonies, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, etc.

Colonialsim and Imperialism are therefore interconnected, with Colonialism (the former) being a sub set of the latter (Imperialism). Colonialism is the rule and administration of a conquered territory / region - a colony - in the wake of aggressive Imperialism / Imperialist warfare and conquest.



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(PS) The 'top contributer' above has qouted (in verbatim) the text from the Wikipedia links I have indicated below comprising all of the response. When you go to the links I have indicated, the exact same wording you will find there... (Lucky for her this is a forum, and not an academic paper, in which case it would be considered plaigarism, since the original sources were not cited and given acknowledgement.)

Answer 7

imperialism is taking over a city or country that has a population and a government
colonization is basically owning land with very little or no people!

Answer 8

colonialism was in the Western Hemisphere,
imperialism was in the Eastern Hemisphere,
also the Industrial revolution started imperialism

Answer 9

Colonialism :
Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler colonies or administrative dependencies in which indigenous populations are directly ruled or displaced. Colonising nations generally dominate the resources, labor, and markets of the colonial territory, and may also impose socio-cultural, religious and linguistic structures on the conquered population (see also cultural imperialism). Though the word colonialism is often used interchangeably with imperialism, the latter is sometimes used more broadly as it covers control exercised informally (via influence) as well as formal military control or economic leverage.

The term colonialism may also be used to refer to a set of beliefs used to legitimize or promote this system. Colonialism was often based on the ethnocentric belief that the morals and values of the colonizer were superior to those of the colonized; some observers link such beliefs to racism and pseudo-scientific theories dating to the 17th and 18th centuries. In the western world, this led to a form of proto-social Darwinism that placed white people at the top of the animal kingdom, "naturally" in charge of dominating non-European indigenous populations.

Several types of colonies may be distinguished, reflecting different colonial objectives. Settler colonies, such as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Argentina were established the movement of large numbers of people from a mother country to the new colony. The local people or tribes, such as the Aboriginal people in Canada and the United States, were usually far overwhelmed numerically by the settlers and were thus moved forcibly to other regions or exterminated. These forcible population transfers, usually to areas of poorer-quality land or resources often led to the permanent detriment of indigenous peoples.

Settler colonies may be contrasted with dependencies, where the colonizers did not arrive as part of a mass emigration, but rather as administrators over existing sizeable native populations. Examples in this category include the British Raj, Egypt, the Dutch East Indies, and the Japanese colonial empire. In some cases large-scale colonial settlement was attempted in substantially pre-populated areas and the result was either an ethnically mixed population (such as the mestizos of the Americas), or racially divided, such as in French Algeria or Southern Rhodesia.

With plantation colonies such as Barbados, Saint-Domingue and Jamaica, the white colonizers imported black slaves who rapidly began to outnumber their owners, leading to minority rule, similar to a dependency. Trading posts, such as Hong Kong, Macau, Malacca, Deshima and Singapore constitute a fifth category, where the primary purpose of the colony was to engage in trade rather than as a staging post for further colonization of the hinterland.

Imperialism :

Imperialism developed in the early 19th century after the Industrial Revolution when the western nations began to take control of other non-industrialized nations and colonies. The "Age of Imperialism" usually refers to the Old Imperialism period starting from 1860, when major European states started colonizing the other continents. The term 'Imperialism' was initially coined in the mid to late 1500s[2] to reflect the policies of countries such as Britain and France's expansion into Africa, and the Americas.

In the nineteenth century Britain the word "imperialism" came to be used in a polemical fashion to deride the foreign and domestic policies of the French emperor Napoleon III. Britons, in a longstanding tradition to distinguish themselves from the European mainland, did not consider their own policies to be "imperialist". They did speak of "colonization", the migration of people from British descent to other continents, giving rise to a “greater Britain” of English speaking peoples. Colonization was not yet associated with the rule of non-western peoples. India, which Britain acquired from the East India Trading Company, was widely regarded as an exception.

It was a very important exception, which nonetheless gave Britain cause for embarrassment. Benjamin Disraeli's move to make Queen Victoria "Empress of India" was even criticized as a dangerous act of (continental) “imperialism”. Critics feared this would have negative repercussions on British freedom and the rule of Parliament. When the subordination of non-Western peoples by European powers resumed with greater vigor in the late 19th century, the term became commonplace among liberal and Marxist critics alike.

Europeans also took control of regions of China. Each region that was seized was known as a sphere of influence, an area where Europeans from a certain country had economic privileges. Europeans controlled the government in their spheres of influences and Europeans forced the Chinese government to give them favorable treatment.

In the twentieth century the term "imperialism" also grew to apply to any historical or contemporary instance of a greater power acting, or being perceived to be acting, at the expense of a lesser power. Imperialism is therefore not only used to describe frank empire-building policies, such as those of the Romans, the Spanish or the British, but is also used controversially and/or disparagingly, for example by both sides in communist and anti-communist propaganda, or to describe actions of the United States since the American Presidency's acquisition of overseas territory during the Spanish-American War, or in relation to the United States' present-day position as the world's only superpower.