Imperialism is the maintaining and extending of power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power and soft power. Imperialism focuses on establishing or maintain
British assault on Canton during the First Opium War, May 1841
This cartoon reflects the view of Judge magazine regarding America's imperial ambitions following McKinley's quick victory in the Spanish–American War of 1898.
Entrance of the Russian troops in Tiflis, 26 November 1799, by Franz Roubaud, 1886
The capture of Lạng Sơn during the French conquest of Vietnam in 1885
A colonial empire is a state engaging in colonization, and possibly establishing or maintaining colonies, infused with some form of coloniality and colonialism. Such states can expand contiguous as we
Landing of Columbus