colonialism

Examples of colonialism in the following topics:

• English Administration of the Colonies

  • Each colony had a paid colonial agent in London to represent its interests.
  • Provincial colonies, also known as royal colonies, were under the direct control of the king, who usually appointed a royal governor.
  • Proprietary colonies were governed much as provincial colonies except that Lords Proprietors, rather than the king, appointed the governor.
  • Massachusetts began as a charter colony in 1684 but became a provincial colony in 1691.
  • In a charter colony, Britain granted a charter to the colonial government establishing the rules under which the colony was to be governed.

• Indigenous Efforts Against Colonialism

• Conclusion: Patterns of British Settlement in the Colonies

  • Through the 17th century, Great Britain established 13 colonies in North America and greatly expanded its colonial reach.
  • In the early 1700s, the population in the colonies had reached 250,000.
  • The early colonies also contributed to the rise in population in English America as many thousands of Europeans made their way to the colonies.
  • The colonies differed substantially in their economics; while northern colonies relied heavily on the emergence of industry and the production of goods to sell or trade, southern colonies arose out of agriculture and the production of staple crops.
  • Southern colonies especially relied on slavery, but all colonies benefited from the institution.

• Colonialism and Neocolonialism

  • Colonialism is the establishment, maintenance, acquisition, and expansion of colonies in one territory by people from another territory.
  • According to some scholars, building these colonies across oceans differentiates colonialism from other types of expansionism.
  • It also saw the establishment of some Swedish overseas colonies and a Danish colonial empire.
  • However, many new colonies were established after this period, including the German colonial empire and Belgian colonial empire.
  • The pith helmet is a symbol of French colonialism in tropical regions, as it was worn by colonial officers.

• Postcolonial Discourse

  • Postcolonialism (also known as post-colonial theory, post-colonial studies, and post-colonialism) is an academic discipline that comprises methods of intellectual discourse presenting analyses of, and responses to, the cultural legacies of colonialism and of imperialism (nearly always by European and North American powers).
  • Drawing from post-modern schools of thought, post-colonial studies analyze the politics of knowledge (creation, control, and distribution) and the functional relations of social and political power that sustain colonialism and "neo-colonialism" (i.e., the perpetuation of modern day colonialism).
  • As anthropology, post-colonialism records human relations among the colonial nations and the subaltern peoples exploited by colonial rule.
  • Post-colonial literature addresses the problems and consequences of the de-colonization of a country and of a nation, especially the political and cultural independence of formerly subjugated colonial peoples; it also covers literary critiques of and about post-colonial literature, the undertones of which carry, communicate, and justify racialism and colonialism.
  • However, most contemporary forms of post-colonial literature present literary and intellectual critiques of the post-colonial discourse by endeavoring to assimilate post-colonialism and its literary expressions.

• The Economy of the Middle Colonies

  • The Middle Colonies flourished economically due to fertile soil, broad navigable rivers, and abundant forests.
  • The Middle Colonies comprised the middle region of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire in North America.
  • The partly unglaciated Middle Colonies enjoyed fertile soil vastly different from the nearby New England colonies, which contained more rocky soil.
  • Because of the large grain exports resulting from this soil, the colonies came to be known as the Bread Basket Colonies.
  • While the Middle Colonies had far more industry than the Southern Colonies, they still did not rival the industry of New England.

• Georgia

  • The Province of Georgia was chartered as a proprietary colony in 1733 and was the last of the 13 original British colonies.
  • The Province of Georgia, also called Georgia Colony, was one of the southern colonies in British America and the last of the 13 original colonies established by Great Britain.
  • In 1755, Georgia officially ceased to be a trustee colony and became a crown colony.
  • In practice, settlement in the colony was limited to the vicinity near the Savannah River.
  • The Georgia Colony would act as a "buffer state" (border) or "garrison province" that would defend the southern part of the British colonies from Spanish Florida.

• An Emerging Colonial System

  • The colonies began as disparate political units, eventually merging themselves into thirteen cohesive colonies.
  • The Thirteen Colonies were the English colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded between 1607 and 1733.
  • Saybrook Colony was founded in 1635 and merged with Connecticut Colony in 1644.
  • Carolina colony was divided into two colonies, North Carolina and South Carolina, in 1712.
  • Both colonies became royal colonies in 1729.

• Settling the Middle Colonies

  • The Middle Colonies consisted of the middle region of the Thirteen Colonies of the British Empire in North America.
  • The Middle Colonies tended to mix aspects of the New England and Southern Colonies.
  • Its large exports led to its constituent colonies becoming known as the Bread Basket Colonies.
  • While the Middle Colonies had far more industry than the Southern Colonies, they still did not rival the industry of New England.
  • Compare the culture of the Middle Colonies with that of other English colonies

• English Colonies

  • A single person or family owned proprietary colonies, also called charter colonies.
  • Investors owned Joint Stock colonies.
  • A Joint Stock colony would sell shares.
  • The Jamestown colony became a small city within the larger colony of Virginia (which became an economically successful colony due to tobacco).
  • The colonial South included the plantation colonies of the Chesapeake region and the lower South.