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Forms of Government: Colonialism

A topic guide with resources on the major forms of government and political thought.

Colonialism

Colonialism is defined as "domination of a people or area by a foreign state or nation the practice of extending and maintaining a nation's political and economic control over another people or area" or "the policy of or belief in acquiring and retaining colonies" (Merriam-Webster).  

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Colonialism and Its Legacies

Colonialism and Its Legacy brings together essays by leading scholars in both the fields of political theory and the history of political thought about European colonialism and its legacies, and postcolonial social and political theory. The essays explore the ways in which European colonial projects structured and shaped much of modern political theory, how concepts from political philosophy affected and were realized in colonial and imperial practice, and how we can understand the intellectual and social world left behind by a half-millennium of European empires. The volume ranges from the beginning of modernity to the present day, examining colonialism and colonial legacies in India, Africa, Latin America, and North America.