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colonialism [kəˈləʊnɪəˌlɪzəm] n (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas Also called imperialism colonialist n & adj colonialism the implementation of various political, economic, and social policies to enable a state to maintain or extend its authority and control over other territories. — colonialist, n., adj. — colonialistic, adj. See also: Government
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| It is the early 1960s and a fledging independence movement is stirring, causing the nervous British colonialists who have made the island home to worry about the long-term prospects of their privileged status. In both contexts, the colonialists encountered similar chiefly systems, which they alternately sought to undermine and privilege as they tried to discern their economic interests in complex and perpetually shifting circumstances. Aldama suggests that Carpentier's and Asturias's work and theories played the "unintended role" of "fixing and justifying the political propaganda of colonialists and neocolonialists everywhere. |
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