George Orwell’s second novel, Burmese Days, one of his first major works tells the fictional story of John Flory, set in the waning days of colonialism in Burma. One of the pinnacle novels on colonialism, Orwell critiques the various forms of colonialism, the militaristic, economic and cultural imperialism he saw during his time in Burma ...
World War I was one of the most destructive conflicts ever to ravage humanity. And what makes it even more terrible was that unlike World War II, it was not a war that needed to be fought in order to preserve freedom, democracy, or a way of life. World War I was primarily of war ...
American imperialism was a introduced to the American people in 1899 when the leagues began to be formed. There were both imperialist and anti-imperialists. The American Imperialists wanted to have a supreme ruler and one government because they believed that it promoted peace. They also believed that it would help the world in any problems ...
When the term “imperialism” is mentioned, we most often think of Europe and the United States with their territories in Asia, Africa, and the South Pacific. However, there was one Asian nation that joined in this Western personified imperialistic boom. Japan was opened up under Western influence, and under Western pressure and the need to ...
Imperialism is the practice of extending the power of a nation by direct territorial acquisition of colonial empires. The desire for power and prestige played a role in American imperialism. But it was the economy that led the United States to imperialism. In the late 1800s the United States became the world’s leading industrial producer. ...
At the end of the 19th century, the United States began to realize the potential they had as a world power. They were the leading producers of wheat and cotton, they had developed as an industrial nation, and they had been successful in the past with producing international treaties favorable to their desires. The leaders ...
By the end of the Age of Imperialism, ninety percent of Africa was divided among seven European nations. The Europeans established colonies through imperialism, completely dominating the land and its native people. Although similar in this brutal style, each nation that participated had different motives for controlling new lands. Britain, arguably the strongest country in ...
The period from 1870-1914 is generally referred to as the age of imperialism, a period when the nations of Western Europe embarked upon a race for overseas empires that held profound implications for the entire world. A large part of recorded history deals with the rise and fall of empires. Europeans themselves have been among ...
