Essays on Colonialism

Early Latin America is a rich and complex social, political, financial, and social condition having an unmistakably Western (European) center always affected by those powers natural inside a colonial framework. Out of a mercantilist filled drive for riches and influence emerged another culture ruled by...

The concept of division within the community has been prevailed for a long time. Ibelief that division plays an integral role in bringing negative changes and ideologies. Often,within the contemporary communities, leaders apply the notion of divide and conquer to havean easy time ruling. In...

The British and American relationship during colonial times had always been unstable; even some of the early settlers came to America to avoid religious persecution in England. After the British sent over settlers to America, it became too busy with a war against Spain and...

Mike Davis’ Victorian Holocausts was a real eye opener to me. Davis gives us a powerfully researched history of El Nino and La Nina droughts which set the stage for some of the most terrible famines in human history. The weather set the stage, but...

Mike Davis’ Late Victorian Holocausts had been a whirlpool from the beginning. Through an economical and agricultural approach, Davis asks the questions that some of us are afraid to address: could the droughts, famines, and other disasters been prevented? Was the government not trying hard...

Colonialism is defined as ‘the establishment of rule, for an extended period of time, by a sovereign power over a subordinate and alien people’ (Watts, 2000). It is a form of imperialism that has spanned over 500 years of histories, facilitated by technological advancements which...

Decolonisation is a highly complex and controversial topic to discuss. While many try to avoid this topic, it is a real issue that needs to be faced in South Africa. Colonisation is described by Kennedy in his article Decolonisation, A Very Short Introduction as “the...