imperialism

Examples of imperialism in the following topics:

• American Imperialism

  • American imperialism is a term that refers to the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States internationally.
  • 'American imperialism' is a term that refers to the economic, military, and cultural influence of the United States on other countries.
  • The combination of these attitudes and other factors led the United States toward imperialism.
  • Meinig argues that the imperial behavior of the United States dates back to at least the Louisiana Purchase.
  • The League also argued that the Spanish-American War was a war of imperialism camouflaged as a war of liberation.

• The Debate over American Imperialism

  • Some of these are explained, or used as examples for the various perceived forms of American imperialism .
  • Journalist Ashley Smith divides theories of the U.S. imperialism into five broad categories: (1) "Liberal" theories, (2) "social-democratic" theories, (3) "Leninist" theories, (4) theories of "super-imperialism," and (5) "Hardt-and-Negri-ite" theories.
  • Navy during the late nineteenth century, supported the notion of American imperialism in his 1890 book titled The Influence of Sea Power upon History.
  • Mahan's argument provides a context that also justifies imperialism by industrial nations such as the United States .
  • The League also argued that the Spanish-American War was a war of imperialism camouflaged as a war of liberation.

• Postcolonial Discourse

  • Postcolonial discourse is an academic discipline that analyzes the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism.
  • Postcolonialism (also known as post-colonial theory, post-colonial studies, and post-colonialism) is an academic discipline that comprises methods of intellectual discourse presenting analyses of, and responses to, the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism (nearly always by European and North American powers).
  • It was believed among white colonists that imperial stewardship of "less civilized" areas of the world would help lead to intellectual and moral reform of the peoples within these areas (largely people of color), and contribute to natural harmony among the human races of the world.
  • Anthropology, by means of which Western intellectuals generated knowledge about non-Western peoples, which colonial institutions then used to subjugate them into a colony to serve the economic, social, and cultural interests of the imperial power.
  • Colonialist literature, wherein the writers ideologically justified imperialism and colonialism with cultural representations (literary and pictorial) of the colonized country and its people, as perpetually inferior, which the imperial steward must organise into a colonial society to be guided towards European modernity.

• The Literati

  • The imperial examinations were a civil service examination system in Imperial China to select scholar-officials for the state bureaucracy.
  • Although there were imperial exams as early as the Han dynasty, the system became the major path to office only in the mid-Tang dynasty, and remained so until its abolition in 1905.
  • This common culture helped to unify the empire and the ideal of achievement by merit gave legitimacy to imperial rule.
  • A pivotal point in the development of imperial examinations arose with the rise of Wu Zetian, later Empress Wu.
  • Reform of the imperial examinations to include a new class of elite bureaucrats derived from humbler origins became a keystone of Wu's gamble to retain power.

• The Habit of Self-Government

  • In a self-governing colony such as Plymouth, elected rulers make most decisions without referring to the imperial power that nominally controls the colony.
  • A self-governing colony is a colony in which elected rulers are able to make most decisions without referring to the imperial power (such as England), with nominal control of the colony.
  • Colonies have sometimes been referred to as self-governing in situations where the executive has not been under the control of the imperial government; the term self-governing can refer to the direct rule of a Crown Colony by an executive governor elected under a limited franchise.

• Imperial Sculpture under the Nervan-Antonines

  • Nerva's portraiture followed the style of imperial portraiture during the Flavian era.
  • These portraits show him with the now-traditional imperial style of thick, curly hair and a curly beard.
  • The women of imperial families set the standards of fashion and beauty during the reigns of their husbands or other male family members.
  • During the Nervan-Antonine period, portraits of imperial women and their hairstyles kept some Flavian flavor but where simpler than they had been.
  • Contrast male and female imperial portraiture during this time period from that of the Flavian dynasty.

• The Coronation of 800 CE

  • Charlemagne's coronation as emperor, though intended to represent the continuation of the unbroken line of emperors from Augustus to Constantine VI, had the effect of setting up two separate (and often opposing) empires and two separate claims to imperial authority.
  • In support of Charlemagne's coronation, some argued that the imperial position had actually been vacant, deeming a woman (Irene) unfit to be emperor.
  • In normal circumstances the only conceivable answer to that question would have been the Emperor at Constantinople; but the imperial throne was at this moment occupied by Irene.
  • Norwich explains that by bestowing the imperial crown upon Charlemagne, the pope arrogated to himself "the right to appoint the Emperor of the Romans, establishing the imperial crown as his own personal gift but simultaneously granting himself implicit superiority over the Emperor whom he had created."
  • The empire would remain in continuous existence for nearly a millennium, as the Holy Roman Empire, a true imperial successor to Charlemagne.

• Architecture of the Qin Dynasty

  • The Qin Dynasty was the first imperial dynasty of China, lasting from 221 to 206 BCE.
  • During its reign over China, the Qin sought to create an imperial state unified by highly structured political power and a stable economy able to support a large military.

• Empires in Conflict

  • Conflict among European imperial powers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries led to violence in the North American colonies.
  • As various European imperial powers settled on the new continent of North America, their conflicts became transatlantic.
  • Describe how conflicts among European imperial powers shaped the North American colonies

• Ivory Carving in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • The Barberini Diptych (c. 500-550 CE) is a Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych dating from Late Antiquity.
  • The Barberini Diptych is attributed to an imperial workshop in Constantinople.
  • This is the insignia of imperial power.
  • With the Barberini Diptych, it is one of two important surviving sixth-century Byzantine ivories attributed to the imperial workshops of Constantinople under Justinian.