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The 55 pages that link to Imperialism, each with the reason it gives.

• World War IRelated: Imperial competition aggravated tensions among the major powers.

• ColonialismCompared with: Imperialism names broader expansion of power; colonialism often involves direct territorial control.

• NationalismCompared with: Nationalist self-rule often arose in opposition to imperial domination.

• Postcolonial literatureRelated: It links colonial rule to broader political and economic projects.

• PostcolonialismRelated: Its broader account of power helps distinguish colonial rule from other forms of domination.

• Social DarwinismRelated: Evolutionary rhetoric was used to portray imperial conquest as a natural contest among nations.

• Ethnic nationalismCompared with: Multiethnic empires challenge the idea that each nation should have a state of its own.

• Settler colonialismRelated: Imperialism can include settler projects but also operates without permanent settlement.

• Rosa LuxemburgRelated: Luxemburg connected capitalist accumulation with colonial expansion and competition among states.

• Anti-imperialismCompared with: It names the domination that anti-imperialism opposes.

• TributeNarrower topic: Tribute was one way empires exercised power without directly administering every subordinate community.

• NeocolonialismNarrower topic: Neocolonialism describes one indirect mode within broader practices of imperial power.

• Russian nationalismRelated: Russian nationalism may support empire, but national self-determination and imperial rule can conflict.

• European colonialismNarrower topic: Colonialism is one way imperial power operates, but imperialism can also work without settlement or direct rule.

• Great GameNarrower topic: The Great Game was one regional expression of nineteenth-century imperial competition.

• Rudyard KiplingNarrower topic: Kipling’s writing both dramatizes imperial rule and gives voice to its justifications.

• South Manchuria RailwayNarrower topic: The company exemplified how infrastructure and business could serve imperial control.

• Anti-colonialismRelated: Anti-colonial arguments challenged the wider expansion of power that sustained colonial control.

• Gunboat diplomacyRelated: Gunboat pressure often served imperial demands without immediate formal conquest.

• EmpireNarrower topic: The broader practice helps distinguish imperial expansion from the political structure it produces.

• Joseph ConradRelated: His novels examine the coercion and self-deception underpinning imperial rule.

• HegemonyCompared with: Imperialism centers on external expansion, while hegemony can operate within a society or across an order.

• MilitarismRelated: Military power often enabled imperial expansion and the coercion of subject populations.

• Human zoosRelated: Imperial ambition shaped the messages that colonial exhibitions conveyed to domestic audiences.

• August BebelCompared with: Bebel condemned colonial expansion, contrasting socialist internationalism with imperial policy.

• EurasianismCompared with: Critics ask whether Eurasianist unity obscures unequal relations within Russia’s historical sphere.

• John FranklinRelated: Franklin’s mapping voyages served Britain’s strategic and territorial interests in the Arctic.

• Maxim gunNarrower topic: The gun became associated with the technological force behind imperial expansion.

• Banana WarsNarrower topic: The interventions formed part of a broader period of U.S. expansion beyond its continental borders.

• Colonial literatureNarrower topic: Imperial ambitions supply the political context for much colonial writing.

• ColonizationNarrower topic: Imperialism is broader than colonization and can operate without settlement or direct territorial administration.

• Halford MackinderRelated: Mackinder developed strategic geography amid intense competition among imperial powers.

• Thomas CarlyleRelated: Carlyle’s writings on race and empire expose the authoritarian and racist limits of his social criticism.

• Heroic Age of Antarctic ExplorationRelated: Imperial-era rivalries influenced the national framing of Antarctic claims and achievements.

• American Popular Revolutionary AllianceNarrower topic: APRA’s founding program treated foreign domination of Latin America as a central political problem.

• Eisenhower DoctrineCompared with: Critics viewed unilateral intervention as projecting U.S. dominance rather than simply resisting communism.

• John DeeNarrower topic: Dee helped supply intellectual arguments for England’s overseas claims and expansion.

• Battle of Rorke's DriftRelated: The battle's commemoration often presented British imperial expansion as heroic defense.

• The White Man's BurdenNarrower topic: The phrase became one of imperialism's best-known justifications.

• Third-worldismNarrower topic: Opposition to imperial power is the shared political target around which this outlook organizes.

• ConquestNarrower topic: Imperialism is the broader pursuit of dominance; conquest is one means of achieving it.

• Vassal stateNarrower topic: Vassalage let empires expand influence without directly annexing every subordinate polity.

• Antonio NegriCompared with: Negri distinguishes contemporary Empire from imperialism centered on rival nation-states.

• Long nineteenth centuryRelated: Imperial expansion connected European power to global economic and political change.

• UltranationalismRelated: Ultranationalist expansion can provide a popular justification for imperial domination.

• Causes of World War INarrower topic: Competition for influence and empire aggravated rivalries among the great powers.

• Land of Hope and GloryRelated: The song’s celebration of British greatness is often read against the history of imperial power.

• Late modern periodRelated: Industrial economies and competition among states intensified overseas empire-building.

• Religious warCompared with: Imperial interests can explain campaigns whose public language invokes religious duty.

• The Origins of TotalitarianismRelated: The book treats overseas imperial expansion as a source of practices later used in Europe.