20th Century Colonialism and Imperialism

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20th Century Colonialism and Imperialism
The distinction between the concepts of colonialism and imperialism is blurry. Both allow for the exploitation of natural and human resources across space and time. The terms have similar meanings and are often used interchangeably. Imperialism is essentially the control and domination of a distant territory from a central, imperial seat. Colonialism, on the other hand, is the establishment of settlements by a ruling state in a distant territory (Shirlow, et al. 116). Recent definitions have suggested that each is a facet of the other: that imperialism is a concept or state policy, and colonialism is the practice of imperialism for settlement and/or commercial purposes (Ibid.).
The imperialism that...

.....kingdom of Hawai’i (Ries and Weber n.d.). It was the United States’ entry onto the stage of global imperialism that led it to enter World War I, its first involvement in a European conflict, in the second decade of the twentieth century.
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