colonial history
Empires' territorial records
Colonial history encompasses the period when powerful nations established control over distant territories, and the study of that era.
It covers the administration, exploitation, and cultural transformation of colonized lands by European powers and others from roughly the fifteenth through twentieth centuries: a professor of colonial history, Colonial history shaped modern borders across Africa.
The term often carries critical weight, acknowledging violence, displacement, and lasting inequalities.
- independence movementsEfforts seeking political autonomy
- British EmpireVast colonial domain
- neocolonialismIndirect foreign domination
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- IndiaSouth Asian republic
white man's burden · indentured servitude · Africa · plantation economy · nationalist leaders · cultural hegemony · stolen artifacts · colonial architecture · decolonization · mercantilism · mission schools · Dutch Empire · French Empire · partition · native reservations · religious conversion · oral histories · transatlantic slave trade
- New JerseyNewark, Garden State, Trenton, Jersey City, Princeton
- HawkesburyWindsor, Richmond, Wilberforce, Ebenezer, Oakville
- historyancient civilizations, past events, epochs, era, epoch
- PortugalLisbon, Porto, Algarve, Oporto, Madeira
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
colonial historyindigenous history
Past of original inhabitants
national history · ancient history · contemporary history · medieval history
colony, historical, historian, colonist, colonia, colonization