Imperialism (tagged articles)Photo: Carol Mitchel ND-2
United States Patents, Biopiracy, and Cultural Imperialism: The Theft of India's Traditional KnowledgeDaanyaal R. Kumar - This article aims to present the biopiracy of traditional knowledge from India by the United States, which has occurred directly through the use of patent law and indirectly through economic power and cultural imperialism. Throughout this essay, I will analyze U.S.... Keep Reading »
Victorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social Character, and its Relation to Victorian Popular CulturePeter H. Conlin - The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality, the Empire created grounds on which it could justify the imperialist actions that it executed throughout the world during this... Keep Reading »
Hegemonic Overreach in the British Empire: Economic Distress, Strategic Imperative, and the Fall of SingaporePeter Bennett-Koufie - Since the end of the Second World War, scholars of British military history have busied themselves with attempts to explain the British defeat at Singapore to Japan in February 1942. Research reveals that there existed what Peden has called an “imbalance between... Keep Reading »
A Colonial Catalyst: Reverberations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Rise of ISISSumaia N. Masoom - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (more commonly known as “ISIS,” but also referred to as the “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant” or simply “the Islamic State”) has been on a reign of terror in the Middle East for the past three... Keep Reading »
How Important is the Notion of the 'Civilising Mission' to Our Understanding of British Imperialism Before 1939?Thanapat Pekanan - The ‘civilising mission' is a broad ideology that combines four main ideals; Enlightenment ideals, Christian / Evangelical ideas of pre-destination, racist ideas about white superiority and Liberalism. All these ideals have had a significant role in our understanding... Keep Reading »
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