Colonialism Essays

Introduction The colonization of North American went through long period of war between major European powers. Unlike other region in the world where the scramble for colonization witnessed less incidences of hostility, North America was a battle ground between major European powers including Britain and Frances. France and Britain who …

Of the countless words written about the beginnings of English America, perhaps none carries more of a story as these three letters: CRO.  Not even a word, this syllable, this fragment, carved into a tree that stood in front of the abandoned English fort at Roanoke, encapsulates the legend of …

Post = After Colonialism = the process of one country inhabiting another usually instilling their norms and values into that society Media Edward said – American-Palestinian Western media representations often contain a legacy of colonialism Colonial ideology -Superiority -Racial prejudice -Civilized Edward Said On Orientalism: ‘Orientalism has some perspectives of …

Josh Davies looks at the history of the Philippines, from its domination by the Spanish to its present day Maoist insurgency The modern history of the Philippines has been defined by the domination of outside powers and resistance to them. The Philippines was a formal colony of Spain until 1899 …

Sven Lindqvist’s “Exterminate all the Brutes” explores the idea that genocides have been deeply rooted in European thinking over the last century. It is written in the form of a travel dairy and a historical examination of European racism over the past two centuries. Lindqvist argues that the harrowing racism …

Perhaps Joseph Conrad’s central thematic interest in his most famous novella, Heart of Darkness, is that of the condition of humanity, elements of which he believed to be inherent to mankind and others that he believed to be unusually prevalent in his contemporary society. I believe that his most interesting …

Gomburza is an acronym for Fathers Mariano Gomez, Jose Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, three Filipino priests who were executed on February 17, 1873 by Spanish colonial authorities on trumped-up charges of subversion arising from the 1872 Cavite mutiny. Their unjust execution enraged and left a profound and bitter effect …

It was not an easy beginning during the time of the Jamestown settlement, the majority of the settlers died due to extreme conditions, what was the cause of this? In the spring of 1607, the king of England gave 110 Englishmen his blessing to sail in search of gold. These …

Examine the representation of the encounter between white settler-invaders and Indigenous peoples in Jeannette Amstrong’s “History Lesson” and Roughing It in the Bush. The Representation of the encounter between white settlers-invaders and indigenous peoples in Jeannette Armstrong’s “History Lesson” and Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush differ greatly in …

By definition, post colonialism is a period of time after colonialism, and postcolonial literature is typically characterized by its opposition to the colonial. However, some critics have argued that any literature that expresses an opposition to colonialism, even if it is produced during a colonial period, may be defined as …