Category: Imperialism

Since the early 1500s, foreign intervention has played a major role in the history of Latin America. While the region has seen some benefit from this involvement it has been mostly for the worse. The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende touches on this with its depiction of an American-backed coup in a fictional…

During the course, we have been dealing with some concepts related to England that were pointed out in the very first class. This essay aims to analyze how Imperialism, power, and a sense of superiority have been reinforced throughout the lessons. It will be using analyzing poems and the bibliography related to the history of…

Russia, not Germany, mobilized first. Serbia and Russia were backed by France and Britain during the resulting war which was Russias anticipated outcome. Although no one nation deserves all responsibility for the outbreak of war, Germany seems to me to deserve the most. It alone had the power to halt the descent to disaster at…

There is no doubt that the recent events raising awareness about racism, such as Black Lives Matter (BLM), have brought to our attention the need for rapid societal change to combat this serious issue. This has sparked a discussion on whether the UK government has and is doing enough to tackle racism. The debate around…

The British created new technology and systems. Using imperialism, they were able to spread their technology and gain new ideas from other countries. As the Industrial Revolution started in Britain, imperialism allowed the principles of the Industrial Revolution to spread to the developing world. It has helped nations modernize their economies, grow new crops, and…

It is conceivable to characterize media imperialism as ‘a concept that suggests an unequal relationship between nations, in which one tends to dominate another’ (Schiller, 1991). However, to truly understand what media imperialism is, we would first need to define the terms ‘media’ and ‘imperialism’ separately. Media is difficult to define, but if we were…