A 1665 illustration of a Dutch East India Companyfactory in Hugli-Chuchura, depicting various elements of colonialism, including its hierarchies and impact on the colonized and their lands.
Colonialism is the control of another territory, natural resources and people by a foreign group.[1][2][3][4][5] Colonizers control the political and tribal power of the colonised territory.[6][7] While frequently an imperialist project, colonialism can also take the form of settler colonialism, whereby settlers from one or multiple colonizing metropoles occupy a territory with the intention of partially or completely supplanting the existing population.[8][9]: 2 [10]
Because of this broad impact different instances of colonialism have been identified from around the world and in history, starting with when colonization was developed by developing colonies and metropoles, the base colonial separation and characteristic.[8]
Decolonization, which started in the 18th century, gradually led to the independence of colonies in waves, with a particular large wave of decolonizations happening in the aftermath of World War II between 1945 and 1975.[14][15] Colonialism has a persistent impact on a wide range of modern outcomes, as scholars have shown that variations in colonial institutions can account for variations in economic development,[16][17][18]regime types,[19][20] and state capacity.[21][22] Some academics have used the term neocolonialism to describe the continuation or imposition of elements of colonial rule through indirect means in the contemporary period.[23][24]
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^Jacobs, Margaret D. (1 July 2009). White Mother to a Dark Race. Lincoln: U of Nebraska Press. pp. 24, 81, 421, 430. ISBN978-0-8032-1100-1. OCLC268789976.
^Stoler, Ann Laura (4 October 1995). Race and the Education of Desire: Foucault's History of Sexuality and the Colonial Order of Things. Duke University Press. doi:10.2307/j.ctv11319d6. ISBN978-0-8223-7771-9.