# Definitions of Imperialism. 1.9-12

Imperialisms, Ancient and Modern, Definitions of Imperialism., 1.9 to 1.12. Latin.

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Empires are ultimately about power and the sense of power, and belong to a stage of internal political development. B. J. Kemp, "Imperialism and Empire in New Kingdom Egypt," in Imperialism in the Ancient World (1978) 56. There have been throughout history structures that belong within a single class on substantive grounds, namely, the exercise of authority (or power or control) by one state over one or more other states (or communities or peoples) for an extended period of time. Finley, M.I., "The Fifth Century Athenian Empire: a Balance-Sheet," in P.D.A. Garnesey and C.R. Whittaker (eds.), Imperialism in the Ancient World (1978) 104. Imperialism may be defined as the effective domination by a relatively strong state over a weaker people whom it does not control as it does its home population, or as the effort to secure such domination. . . . [On] a political level, imperialism may be said to exist when a weaker people cannot act with respect to what it regards as fundamental domestic or foreign concerns for fear of foreign reprisals that it believes itself unable to counter. . . . When imperialism manifests itself directly its presence is unambiguous enough: A political authority emanating from a foreign land sets itself up as locally sovereign, claiming the final right to determine and enforce the law over a people recognized as distinct from that of the imperial homeland. Tony Smith, The Pattern of Imperialism: the United States, Great Britain, and the Late-Industrializing World Since 1815 (Cambridge University Press, 1981). Empire, then, is a relationship, formal or informal, in which one state controls the effective political sovereignty of another political society. It can be achieved by force, by political collaboration, by economic, social, or cultural dependence. Imperialism is simply the process or policy of establishing or maintaining an empire. Michael W. Doyle, Empires (Cornell 1986) p. 45.

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