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Southeast AsiaTrends In The Study Of Colonialism


COLONIALISM;More recent trends position colonialism through its relationship to the nation and forming of national cultures;criminality counterinsurgency,and prison.and its forms of knowledge and various modes of representation in addition,it has also been illustrated through technology,literature,film.


The story of Southeast Asia's encounter with Europe spans several centuries, leaving a long and complex record of exchange, negotiation, and domination. Colonialism in Southeast Asia might be considered one important chapter in that much larger story of global interaction. Within the region's early colonial historiography, colonialism pertained to the transformation of "traditionally" defined polities into dependent states modeled along European definitions of organization and administration. Because this approach to colonialism was significantly linked to the perspective of those who were immersed within the colonial service, it was no surprise that this understanding of colonialism was expressed through studies of administrative changes and their effects on local societies, economies, and culture.


History of colonialismIn antiquity, colonialism was practiced by empires such as Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient Egypt, and Phoenicia. These civilizations all extended their borders into surrounding and non-contiguous areas from about 1550 B.C. onward, and established colonies that drew on the physical and population resources of the people they conquered in order to increase their own power.
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The 7 Most Important Characteristics Of Colonialism
The colonialism is a political doctrine that involves the occupation and the political and economic control of a territory, partially or totally, by a foreign government. The term colony comes from the Latin colonus which means farmer and suggests the occupation of the land by foreigners who are now called colonists.

Precisely the aspect of occupation is one of those that differentiates it from the term Imperialism, which alludes to the practice of a foreign government that administers a territory without necessarily having to have settlements in it.

Characteristics of colonialism
1. Dating
Colonialism is an ancient practice; Phenicia could be considered as the first colonizing nation, as its inhabitants established settlements on the coastal extension of the Mediterranean Sea in 1100 BC.
2. Linked ideology
Colonialism implies a high level of nationalism. The land itself is considered superior and is assigned an almost “evangelizing” mission
3. Settlements / Occupation
This is an almost sine quanon requirement when speaking of colonialism: the transfer of people to the new territory.
4. Causes
1.Possible causes of colonialism include:
2.Need for land to grow food that allows the colonizer to support its inhabitants.
3.Need to expand the market to commercialize the goods it produces.
5. Main colonizers
Nations that created their own colonies in foreign territories include:
Great Britain : Established its colonies in India, Sudan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Singapore, Burma and Malacca, Cape, Rhodesia, Nigeria, Somalia, Kenya and Uganda, in addition to the privileges it enjoyed in Canton, Hon-Kong and Shanghai .
6. Consequences
Some of the most notable consequences of colonialism are:
1.With the passage of time, the ideas of freedom that emerged from the French Revolution reached the continent
7. End
Modern colonialism ended with the world wars of the 20th century. Also influenced by an increase in national consciousness in the colonies, and the decline of the political and military influence of the old continent.










The COLONIES received the ideology and beliefs of;
The colonized territories were drastically modified , since for the most part the local cultures were completely eliminated or in the best cases native elements were combined with elements of the colonizing cultures.