imperialism

From imperial +‎ -ism.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɪə.ɹi.ə.lɪ.z(ə)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɪ.ɹi.əˌlɪ.zəm/

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• Hyphenation: im‧per‧i‧al‧i‧sm

imperialism (countable and uncountable, plural imperialisms)

1. The policy of forcefully extending a nation's authority by territorial gain or by the establishment of economic and political dominance over other nations.
   • 2008 June 1, A. Dirk Moses, “Preface”, in Empire, Colony, Genocide: Conquest, Occupation, and Subaltern Resistance in World History, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page x:

     Though most of the cases here cover European encounters with non-Europeans, it is not the intention of the book to give the impression that genocide is a function of European colonialism and imperialism alone.

2. (figurative, derogatory) Any undue extension of political, intellectual, or other forms of authority, particularly in regards to systems that benefit the Western world at the cost of the Global South.
   • 1990, Robert H. Bork, The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, →ISBN, page 101:

     The moral imperialism of the Supreme Court did not end with Chief Justice Warren’s resignation nor with the departures of the Justices who made up his distinctive majority.

   • 1998, Michio Morishima, “Foreword: Joseph A. Schumpeter (1883–1950) and Yasuma Takata (1883–1972)”, in Joseph Schumpeter, Yasuma Takata, Power or Pure Economics?, →ISBN, page xxxvi:

     By contrast, economists of the Chicago School approach [sociology] from a standpoint of the imperialism of economics, in the sense that they advance the study of substructure into the areas of the study of superstructure, by researching it as economics.

   • 2015, Russell T. McCutcheon, A Modest Proposal on Method: Essaying the Study of Religion, →ISBN, page 33:

     […] her analysis of the discourse on private belief […] “reduced” and thus “explained away” my intuitions as being something other than what I experience them to be for myself. It was therefore the imperialism of her method that I claimed to be particularly offensive.

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• imperialism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “imperialism”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• imperialism in Keywords for Today: A 21st Century Vocabulary, edited by The Keywords Project, Colin MacCabe, Holly Yanacek, 2018.
• Raymond Williams (1983), “Imperialism”, in Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, revised American edition, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, published 1985, →ISBN, page 159
• “imperialism”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Borrowed from French impérialisme. By surface analysis, imperial +‎ -ism.

imperialism n (uncountable)

1. imperialism

• imperiu

imperialism c

1. imperialism

• kulturimperialism
• neoimperialism

• imperium
• imperialist
• imperialistisk

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