Colonialism

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Colonialism
Colonialism is the policy of a nation seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health. The European colonial period was the era from the 15th century to 1914 when Spain, Portugal, Britain, Russia, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and several smaller European countries such a Belgium and Italy, established colonies outside Europe.[1] It has been estimated that by 1914, Europeans had gained control of 84% of the globe, and by 1800, before the Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution had taken hold, they already controlled at least 35% (excluding Antarctica).[2] The system practically ended between 1945–1975 when nearly all colonies became independent. At first, the countries followed a policy of mercantilism, designed to strengthen the home economy at the expense of rivals, so the colonies were usually allowed to trade only with the mother country. By the mid-19th century, however, the powerful British Empire gave up mercantilism and trade restrictions and introduced the principle of free trade, with few restrictions or tariffs. Christian missionaries were active in practically all the colonies. The 15th century also saw the emergence of the West Asian
West Asian Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire which would go on to be the last colonizer of Europe. Asian colonization of Europe came to an end with the end of the Ottomans. By the late 19th century Japan was an active colonizer.

Contents

1 Definitions 2 Types of colonialism 3 Socio-cultural evolution 4 The Other 5 History

5.1 European empires in 1914

5.1.1 British colonies and protectorates 5.1.2 French colonies 5.1.3 Russian colonies and protectorates 5.1.4 German colonies 5.1.5 Italian colonies and protectorates 5.1.6 Dutch colonies 5.1.7 Portuguese colonies 5.1.8 Spanish colonies 5.1.9 Austro-Hungarian colonies 5.1.10 Danish colonies 5.1.11 Belgian colonies 5.1.12 Numbers of European settlers in the colonies (1500–1914)

5.2 Other non-European colonialist countries in 1914

5.2.1 Australian protectorate 5.2.2 New Zealand
New Zealand dependencies 5.2.3 United States
United States colonies and protectorates 5.2.4 Turkish (Ottoman) colonies 5.2.5 Japanese colonies 5.2.6 Chinese colonies

5.3 Neocolonialism

6 Impact of colonialism and colonization

6.1 Economy, trade and commerce 6.2 Slavery
Slavery and indentured servitude 6.3 Military innovation 6.4 The end of empire 6.5 Post-independence population movement 6.6 Introduced diseases

6.6.1 Countering disease

7 Colonialism
Colonialism and the history of thought

7.1 Universalism 7.2 Colonialism
Colonialism and geography 7.3 Colonialism
Colonialism and imperialism 7.4 Marxist view of colonialism 7.5 Liberalism, capitalism and colonialism 7.6 Scientific thought in colonialism, race and gender 7.7 Post-colonialism

8 Colonial migrations 9 See also 10 Notes 11 Further reading

11.1 Primary sources

12 External links

Definitions[edit]

1541 founding of Santiago de Chile

Collins English Dictionary
Collins English Dictionary defines colonialism as "the policy and practice of a power in extending control over weaker peoples or areas".[3] Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary defines colonialism as "the system or policy of a nation seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories."[4] The Merriam-Webster Dictionary offers four definitions, including "something characteristic of a colony" and "control by one power over a dependent area or people."[5] The 2006 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy "uses the term 'colonialism' to describe the process of European settlement and political control over the rest of the world, including the Americas, Australia, and parts of Africa
Africa and Asia". It discusses the distinction between colonialism and imperialism and states that "given the difficulty of consistently distinguishing between the two terms, this entry will use colonialism as a broad concept that refers to the project of European political domination from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries that ended with the national liberation movements of the 1960s."[6] In his preface to Jürgen Osterhammel's Colonialism: A Theoretical Overview, Roger Tignor says, "For Osterhammel, the essence of colonialism is the existence of colonies, which are by definition governed differently from other territories such as protectorates or informal spheres of influence."[7] In the book, Osterhammel asks, "How can 'colonialism' be defined independently from 'colony?'"[8] He settles on a three-sentence definition:

Colonialism
Colonialism is a relationship between an indigenous (or forcibly imported) majority and a minority of foreign invaders. The fundamental decisions affecting the lives of the colonized people are made and implemented by the colonial rulers in pursuit of interests that are often defined in a distant metropolis. Rejecting cultural compromises with the colonized population, the colonizers are convinced of their own superiority and their ordained mandate to rule.[9]

Types of colonialism[edit] Historians often distinguish between various overlapping forms of colonialism:

Settler colonialism
Settler colonialism involves large-scale immigration, often motivated by religious, political, or economic reasons. It pursues to replace the original population. Exploitation colonialism
Exploitation colonialism involves fewer colonists and focuses on the exploitation of natural resources or population as labour, typically to the benefit of the metropole. This category includes trading posts as well as larger colonies where colonists would constitute much of the political and economic administration. Prior to the end of the slave trade and widespread abolition, when indigenous labour was unavailable, slaves were often imported to the Americas, first by the Portuguese Empire, and later by the Spanish, Dutch, French and British. Surrogate colonialism involves a settlement project supported by a colonial power, in which most of the settlers do not come from same ethnic group as the ruling power. Internal colonialism is a notion of uneven structural power between areas of a state. The source of exploitation comes from within the state.

Socio-cultural evolution[edit] As colonialism often played out in pre-populated areas, sociocultural evolution included the formation of various ethnically hybrid populations. Colonialism
Colonialism gave rise to culturally and ethnically mixed populations such as the mestizos of the Americas, as well as racially divided populations such as those found in French Algeria
French Algeria or in Southern Rhodesia. In fact, everywhere where colonial powers established a consistent and continued presence, hybrid communities existed. Notable examples in Asia
Asia include the Anglo-Burmese, Anglo-Indian, Burgher, Eurasian Singaporean, Filipino mestizo, Kristang and Macanese peoples. In the Dutch East Indies
Dutch East Indies (later Indonesia) the vast majority of "Dutch" settlers were in fact Eurasians known as Indo-Europeans, formally belonging to the European legal class in the colony (see also Indos in pre-colonial history
Indos in pre-colonial history and Indos in colonial history).[10][11] The Other[edit]

"The East offering its riches to Britannia", painted by Spiridione Roma for the boardroom of the British East India
India Company

"The Other", or "othering" is the process of creating a separate entity to persons or groups who are labelled as different or non-normal due to the repetition of characteristics.[12] Othering
Othering is the creation of those who discriminate, to distinguish, label, categorize those who do not fit in the societal norm. Several scholars in recent decades developed the notion of the "other" as an epistemological concept in social theory.[12] For example, postcolonial scholars, believed that colonizing powers explained an "other" who were there to dominate, civilize, and extract resources through colonization of land.[12] Political geographers explain how colonial/ imperial powers (countries, groups of people etc.) "othered" places they wanted to dominate to legalize their exploitation of the land.[12] During and after the rise of colonialism the Western powers perceived the East as the "other", being different and separate from their societal norm. This viewpoint and separation of culture had divided the Eastern and Western culture
Western culture creating a dominant/ subordinate dynamic, both being the "other" towards themselves.[12] History[edit] Main articles: History of colonialism
History of colonialism and Chronology of Western colonialism

Map of colonial empires throughout the world in 1800

Map of colonial empires throughout the world in 1914

Map of colonial empires at the end of the Second World War, 1945

Activity that could be called colonialism has a long history starting with the pre-colonial African empires which led to the Egyptians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans who all built colonies in antiquity. The word "metropole" comes from the Greek metropolis [Greek: "μητρόπολις"]—"mother city". The word "colony" comes from the Latin
Latin colonia—"a place for agriculture". Between the 11th and 18th centuries, the Vietnamese established military colonies south of their original territory and absorbed the territory, in a process known as nam tiến.[13] Modern colonialism started with the Age of Discovery. Portugal and Spain
Spain (initially the Crown of Castile) encountered Central and South America through sea travel and built trading posts or conquered large extensions of land. For some people, it is this building of colonies across oceans that differentiates colonialism from other types of expansionism. These new lands were divided between the Portuguese and Spanish Empires (then still between Portugal and Castile—the Crown of Castile had a dynastic but not state union with the Crown of Aragon through the Catholic Monarchs), first by the papal bull Inter caetera and then by the treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza. This period is also associated with the Commercial Revolution. The late Middle Ages saw reforms in accountancy and banking in Italy and the eastern Mediterranean. These ideas were adopted and adapted in western Europe to the high risks and rewards associated with colonial ventures. The 17th century saw the creation of the French colonial empire
French colonial empire and the Dutch Empire, as well as the English overseas possessions, which later became the British Empire. It also saw the establishment of a Danish colonial empire
Danish colonial empire and some Swedish overseas colonies. The spread of colonial empires was reduced in the late 18th and early 19th centuries by the American Revolutionary War
American Revolutionary War and the Latin American wars of independence. However, many new colonies were established after this time, including the German colonial empire
German colonial empire and Belgian colonial empire. In the late 19th century, many European powers were involved in the Scramble for Africa. The Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire and Austrian Empire existed at the same time as the above empires, but did not expand over oceans. Rather, these empires expanded through the more traditional route of conquest of neighbouring territories. There was, though, some Russian colonization of the Americas
Americas across the Bering Strait. The Empire of Japan modelled itself on European colonial empires. The United States of America gained overseas territories after the Spanish–American War for which the term "American Empire" was coined.

Map of the British Empire
British Empire (as of 1910). At its height, it was the largest empire in history.

After the First World War, the victorious allies divided up the German colonial empire and much of the Ottoman Empire
Ottoman Empire between themselves as League of Nations mandates. These territories were divided into three classes according to how quickly it was deemed that they would be ready for independence.[14] After World War II
World War II decolonization progressed rapidly. This was caused by a number of reasons. First, the Japanese victories in the Pacific War showed Indians, Chinese, and other subject peoples that the colonial powers were not invincible. Second, many colonial powers were significantly weakened by World War II. Dozens of independence movements and global political solidarity projects such as the Non-Aligned Movement
Non-Aligned Movement were instrumental in the decolonization efforts of former colonies. These included significant wars of independence fought in Indonesia, Vietnam, Algeria, and Kenya. Eventually, the European powers—pressured by the United States
United States and Soviets—resigned themselves to decolonization. In 1962 the United Nations
United Nations set up a Special
Special Committee on Decolonization, often called the Committee of 24, to encourage this process. European empires in 1914[edit] The major European empires consisted of the following colonies at the start of World War I
World War I (former colonies of the Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire became independent before 1914 and are not listed; former colonies of other European empires that previously became independent, such as the former French colony Haiti, are not listed).

Colonial Governor of the Seychelles
Seychelles inspecting police guard of honour in 1972

The defence of Rorke's Drift during the Anglo-Zulu War
Anglo-Zulu War of 1879

The world's colonial population at the time of the First World War totaled about 560 million people, of whom 70.0% were in British domains, 10.0% in French, 8.6% in Dutch, 3.9% in Japanese, 2.2% in German, 2.1% in American, 1.6% in Portuguese, 1.2% in Belgian and 1/2 of 1% in Italian possessions. The home domains of the colonial powers had a total population of about 370 million people.[15] Asking whether colonies paid, economic historian Grover Clark argues and an emphatic No! He reports that in every case the support cost, especially the military system necessary to support and defend the colonies outran the total trade they produced. Apart from the British Empire, they were not favored destinations for the immigration of surplus populations.[16] British colonies and protectorates[edit]

Aden Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Ascension Island Bahamas Barbados Basutoland Bechuanaland British Borneo

Brunei Labuan North Borneo Sarawak

British East Africa British Guiana British Honduras British Hong Kong British Leeward Islands

Anguilla Antigua Barbuda British Virgin Islands Dominica Montserrat Nevis

The Delhi Durbar
Delhi Durbar of 1877: the proclamation of Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria as Empress of India

Saint Kitts

British Malaya

The First Anglo-Sikh War, 1845-46

Federated Malay States Straits Settlements Unfederated Malay States

British Somaliland British Western Pacific Territories

British Solomon Islands Fiji Gilbert and Ellice Islands Phoenix Islands Pitcairn Islands New Hebrides
New Hebrides (condominium with France) Tonga Union Islands

British Windward Islands

Barbados Dominica Grenada Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Burma Canada Ceylon Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Cyprus
Cyprus (including Akrotiri and Dhekelia)

The end result of the Boer Wars
Boer Wars was the annexation of the Boer Republics to the British Empire
British Empire in 1902

Egypt Falkland Islands Falkland Islands
Falkland Islands Dependencies

Graham's Land South Georgia South Orkneys South Shetlands South Sandwich Islands Victoria Land

Gambia Gibraltar Gold Coast India
India (including what is today Pakistan
Pakistan and Bangladesh)

A view of shops with anti-British and pro- Independence
Independence signs, Malta, c. 1960

Heard Island and McDonald Islands Ireland Jamaica Kenya Maldives Malta Mauritius Muscat and Oman Norfolk Island Nigeria Northern Rhodesia Nyasaland

Gibraltar
Gibraltar National Day in British-controlled Gibraltar

Seychelles Sierra Leone Southern Rhodesia St. Helena Swaziland Trinidad and Tobago Trucial States Uganda Tonga

1966 flag of the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides

French colonies[edit] Main article: List of French possessions and colonies

Algeria Clipperton Island Comoros Islands
Comoros Islands (including Mayotte)

Siege of Constantine (1836) during the French conquest of Algeria.

Corsica French Guiana French Equatorial Africa

Chad Oubangui-Chari French Congo Gabon

French India
French India (Pondichéry, Chandernagor, Karikal, Mahé and Yanaon) French Indochina

Annam

French officers and Tonkinese riflemen, 1884

Tonkin Cochinchina Cambodia Laos

French Polynesia French Somaliland French Southern and Antarctic Lands French West Africa

Ivory Coast Dahomey Guinea

Contemporary illustration of Major Marchand's trek across Africa
Africa in 1898

French Sudan Mauritania Niger Senegal Upper Volta

Guadeloupe

Saint Barthélemy Saint Martin

La Réunion Madagascar Martinique French Morocco Lebanon New Caledonia Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon Shanghai French Concession
Shanghai French Concession (similar concessions in Kouang-Tchéou-Wan, Tientsin, Hankéou) Tunisia New Hebrides(Condominium with Britain) Wallis-et-Futuna

Russian colonies and protectorates[edit]

The Russian settlement of St. Paul's Harbor (present-day Kodiak, Alaska), Russian America, 1814

European Russia

Åland Islands Baltic provinces

Governorate of Courland Governorate of Livland Governorate of Estland

Bashkortostan Bessarabia Grand Principality of Finland Chechnya Chuvashia Dagestan Dnieper Ukraine East Karelia Ingushetia Kabardino-Balkaria Kalmykia Karachay–Cherkessia Komi

Circassian strike on a Russian military fort in Caucasus, 1840

Lithuania Governorate Mari El Mordovia Russian Poland Tatarstan Udmurtia

Asiatic Russia

Adygea Altai Armenia Azerbaijan Buryatia

Semirechye Cossack, Semirechye (present-day Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan), 1911

Chukotka Emirate of Bukhara Georgia Khakassia Khanate of Khiva Koryak Ossetia Outer Manchuria Russian Turkestan

Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Tajikistan Turkmenistan

Tannu Uriankhai Yakutia Yamalia

German colonies[edit]

Kamerun
Kamerun (by R. Hellgrewe, 1908)

Bismarck Archipelago Cameroon Caroline Islands German New Guinea German Solomon Islands German East Africa German South-West Africa Gilbert Islands Mariana Islands Marshall Islands Togo

Italian colonies and protectorates[edit]

Italian artillery in Ethiopia, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

Italian Libya Italian Eritrea Italian Somaliland Italian Aegean Islands Italian Concession of Tientsin Pantelleria Pelagie Islands

Dutch colonies[edit]

Dutch Ceylon Aruba Bonaire Curaçao Saba Sint Eustatius Sint Maarten Suriname Dutch East Indies Dutch New Guinea

Portuguese colonies[edit]

Portuguese women in Goa, India, 16th century

Azores Portuguese Africa

Cabinda Madeira Portuguese Angola Portuguese Cape Verde Portuguese Guinea Portuguese Mozambique Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe Fort of São João Baptista de Ajudá

Portuguese Asia

Portuguese India

Goa Daman Diu

Portuguese Macau Portuguese Timor

Portuguese America

Colonial Brazil

Spanish colonies[edit]

The Battle of Tétouan, 1860, by Marià Fortuny

Balearic Islands Canary Islands Cape Juby Ifni Río de Oro Saguia el-Hamra Spanish Guinea

Annobón Fernando Pó Río Muni

Spanish Morocco

Austro-Hungarian colonies[edit]

Muslim Bosniak resistance during the battle of Sarajevo in 1878 against the Austro-Hungarian occupation.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Tianjin

Danish colonies[edit] Main article: Danish colonial empire

Danish Gold Coast
Danish Gold Coast (now part of Ghana) Danish India
Danish India (Tharangambadi, Serampore
Serampore and the Nicobar Islands) Danish West Indies
Danish West Indies (now United States
United States Virgin Islands) Faroe islands Greenland Iceland

Belgian colonies[edit]

Belgian Congo Tianjin

Numbers of European settlers in the colonies (1500–1914)[edit]

Millions of Irish left Ireland
Ireland for Canada
Canada and U.S. following the Great Famine in the 1840s

By 1914, Europeans had migrated to the colonies in the millions. Some intended to remain in the colonies as temporary settlers, mainly as military personnel or on business. Others went to the colonies as immigrants. British people were by far the most numerous population to migrate to the colonies: 2.5 million settled in Canada; 1.5 million in Australia; 750,000 in New Zealand; 450,000 in the Union of South Africa; and 200,000 in India. French citizens also migrated in large numbers, mainly to the colonies in the north African Maghreb
Maghreb region: 1.3 million settled in Algeria; 200,000 in Morocco; 100,000 in Tunisia; while only 20,000 migrated to French Indochina. Dutch and German colonies saw relatively scarce European migration, since Dutch and German colonial expansion focused on commercial goals rather than settlement. Portugal sent 150,000 settlers to Angola, 80,000 to Mozambique, and 20,000 to Goa. During the Spanish Empire, approximately 550,000 Spanish settlers migrated to Latin
Latin America.[17] Other non-European colonialist countries in 1914[edit]

Governor General William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly
Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House

Australian protectorate[edit]

Papua

New Zealand
New Zealand dependencies[edit]

Cook Islands Niue

United States
United States colonies and protectorates[edit] Main article: List of U.S. colonial possessions

Alaska American Samoa Cuba
Cuba ( Platt Amendment
Platt Amendment turned Cuba
Cuba into a protectorate) Guantánamo Bay Guam Hawaii Midway Nicaragua Palmyra Atoll Panama
Panama ( Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty turned Panama
Panama into a protectorate) Panama
Panama Canal Zone Philippines Puerto Rico Sultanate of Sulu Swan Islands, Honduras Wake Island

Turkish (Ottoman) colonies[edit] Main article: Territorial evolution of the Ottoman Empire

Baghdad Vilayet Basra Edirne Ha'il

Belgrade, Ottoman Serbia, 19th century

Hejaz Lebanon Nejd Palestine Syria Yemen

Japanese colonies[edit] Main article: List of territories occupied by Imperial Japan

Bonin Islands

Three Koreans
Koreans shot for pulling up rails as a protest against seizure of land without payment by the Japanese

Karafuto Korea Taiwan Kuril Islands Kwantung Leased Territory Ryukyu Domain

Senkaku Islands

Volcano Islands Caroline Islands Penghu Islands

Chinese colonies[edit]

Chinese Turkestan
Chinese Turkestan during the Qing dynasty

Neocolonialism[edit] Main article: Neocolonialism The term neocolonialism has been used to refer to a variety of contexts since decolonization that took place after World War II. Generally it does not refer to a type of direct colonization, rather, colonialism by other means. Specifically, neocolonialism refers to the theory that former or existing economic relationships, such as the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the Central American Free Trade Agreement, created by former colonial powers were or are used to maintain control of their former colonies and dependencies after the colonial independence movements of the post– World War II
World War II period. Impact of colonialism and colonization[edit] Main article: Western European colonialism and colonization § Colonial actions and their impacts

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The Dutch Public Health Service provides medical care for the natives of the Dutch East Indies, May 1946

The impacts of colonization are immense and pervasive.[18] Various effects, both immediate and protracted, include the spread of virulent diseases, unequal social relations, exploitation, enslavement, medical advances, the creation of new institutions, abolitionism,[19] improved infrastructure,[20] and technological progress.[21] Colonial practices also spur the spread of colonist languages, literature and cultural institutions, while endangering or obliterating those of native peoples. The native cultures of the colonized peoples can also have a powerful influence on the imperial country.[citation needed] Economy, trade and commerce[edit] Economic expansion has accompanied imperial expansion since ancient times.[citation needed] Greek trade networks spread throughout the Mediterranean region while Roman trade expanded with the primary goal of directing tribute from the colonized areas towards the Roman metropole. According to Strabo, by the time of emperor Augustus, up to 120 Roman ships would set sail every year from Myos Hormos
Myos Hormos in Roman Egypt
Egypt to India.[22] With the development of trade routes under the Ottoman Empire,

Gujari Hindus, Syrian Muslims, Jews, Armenians, Christians from south and central Europe operated trading routes that supplied Persian and Arab horses to the armies of all three empires, Mocha coffee to Delhi and Belgrade, Persian silk to India
India and Istanbul.[23]

Aztec civilization
Aztec civilization developed into an extensive empire that, much like the Roman Empire, had the goal of exacting tribute from the conquered colonial areas. For the Aztecs, a significant tribute was the acquisition of sacrificial victims for their religious rituals.[24] On the other hand, European colonial empires sometimes attempted to channel, restrict and impede trade involving their colonies, funneling activity through the metropole and taxing accordingly. Despite the general trend of economic expansion, the economic performance of former European colonies varies significantly. In "Institutions as a Fundamental Cause of Long-run Growth," economists Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson compare the economic influences of the European colonists on different colonies and study what could explain the huge discrepancies in previous European colonies, for example, between West African colonies like Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone and Hong Kong
Hong Kong and Singapore.[25] According to the paper, economic institutions are the determinant of the colonial success because they determine their financial performance and order for the distribution of resources. At the same time, these institutions are also consequences of political institutions - especially how de facto and de jure political power is allocated. To explain the different colonial cases, we thus need to look first into the political institutions that shaped the economic institutions.[25] For example, one interesting observation is "the Reversal of Fortune" - the less developed civilizations in 1500, like North America, Australia, and New Zealand, are now much richer than those countries who used to be in the prosperous civilizations in 1500 before the colonists came, like the Mughals in India
India and the Incas in the Americas. One explanation offered by the paper focuses on the political institutions of the various colonies: it was less likely for European colonists to introduce economic institutions where they could benefit quickly from the extraction of resources in the area. Therefore, given a more developed civilization and denser population, European colonists would rather keep the existing economic systems than introduce an entirely new system; while in places with little to extract, European colonists would rather establish new economic institutions to protect their interests. Political institutions thus gave rise to different types of economic systems, which determined the colonial economic performance.[25] European colonization and development also changed gendered systems of power already in place around the world. In many pre-colonialist areas, women maintained power, prestige, or authority through reproductive or agricultural control. For example, in certain parts of sub-Saharan Africa
Africa women maintained farmland in which they had usage rights. While men would make political and communal decisions for a community, the women would control the village’s food supply or their individual family’s land. This allowed women to achieve power and autonomy, even in patrilineal and patriarchal societies.[26] Through the rise of European colonialism came a large push for development and industrialization of most economic systems. However, when working to improve productivity, Europeans focused mostly on male workers. Foreign aid arrived in the form of loans, land, credit, and tools to speed up development, but were only allocated to men. In a more European fashion, women were expected to serve on a more domestic level. The result was a technologic, economic, and class-based gender gap that widened over time.[27] Slavery
Slavery and indentured servitude[edit] Further information: Atlantic slave trade, Indentured servant, Coolie, and Blackbirding

Slave memorial in Zanzibar. The Sultan of Zanzibar
Zanzibar complied with British demands that slavery be banned in Zanzibar
Zanzibar and that all the slaves be freed.

European nations entered their imperial projects with the goal of enriching the European metropole. Exploitation of non-Europeans and other Europeans to support imperial goals was acceptable to the colonizers. Two outgrowths of this imperial agenda were slavery and indentured servitude. In the 17th century, nearly two-thirds of English settlers came to North America as indentured servants.[28] European slave traders brought large numbers of African slaves to the Americas
Americas by sail. Spain
Spain and Portugal had brought African slaves to work at African colonies such as Cape Verde
Cape Verde and the Azores, and then Latin
Latin America, by the 16th century. The British, French and Dutch joined in the slave trade in subsequent centuries. Ultimately, around 11 million Africans were taken to the Caribbean and North and South America as slaves by European colonizers.[29]

Slave traders in Gorée, Senegal, 18th century

European empire Colonial destination Number of slaves imported[29]

Portuguese Empire Brazil 3,646,800

British Empire British Caribbean 1,665,000

French Empire French Caribbean 1,600,200

Spanish Empire Latin
Latin America 1,552,100

Dutch Empire Dutch Caribbean 500,000

British Empire British North America 399,000

Abolitionists in Europe and Americas
Americas protested the inhumane treatment of African slaves, which led to the elimination of the slave trade by the late 18th century. The labour shortage that resulted inspired European colonizers to develop a new source of labour, using a system of indentured servitude. Indentured servants consented to a contract with the European colonizers. Under their contract, the servant would work for an employer for a term of at least a year, while the employer agreed to pay for the servant's voyage to the colony, possibly pay for the return to the country of origin, and pay the employee a wage as well. The employee was "indentured" to the employer because they owed a debt back to the employer for their travel expense to the colony, which they were expected to pay through their wages. In practice, indentured servants were exploited through terrible working conditions and burdensome debts created by the employers, with whom the servants had no means of negotiating the debt once they arrived in the colony. India
India and China
China were the largest source of indentured servants during the colonial era. Indentured servants from India
India travelled to British colonies in Asia, Africa
Africa and the Caribbean, and also to French and Portuguese colonies, while Chinese servants travelled to British and Dutch colonies. Between 1830 and 1930, around 30 million indentured servants migrated from India, and 24 million returned to India. China sent more indentured servants to European colonies, and around the same proportion returned to China.[30] Following the Scramble for Africa, an early but secondary focus for most colonial regimes was the suppression of slavery and the slave trade. By the end of the colonial period they were mostly successful in this aim, though slavery is still very active in Africa
Africa and the world at large with much the same practices of de facto servility despite legislative prohibition.[19] Military innovation[edit]

The First Anglo-Ashanti War, 1823-31

Imperial expansion follows military conquest in most instances. Imperial armies therefore have a long history of military innovation in order to gain an advantage over the armies of the people they aim to conquer. Greeks developed the phalanx system, which enabled their military units to present themselves to their enemies as a wall, with foot soldiers using shields to cover one another during their advance on the battlefield. Under Philip II of Macedon, they were able to organize thousands of soldiers into a formidable battle force, bringing together carefully trained infantry and cavalry regiments.[31] Alexander the Great
Alexander the Great exploited this military foundation further during his conquests. The Spanish Empire
Spanish Empire held a major advantage over Mesoamerican
Mesoamerican warriors through the use of weapons made of stronger metal, predominantly iron, which was able to shatter the blades of axes used by the Aztec civilization and others. The European development of firearms using gunpowder cemented their military advantage over the peoples they sought to subjugate in the Americas
Americas and elsewhere. The end of empire[edit]

Gandhi with Lord Pethwick-Lawrence, British Secretary of State for India, after a meeting on 18 April 1946

The populations of some colonial territories, such as Canada, enjoyed relative peace and prosperity as part of a European power, at least among the majority; however, minority populations such as First Nations peoples and French-Canadians experienced marginalization and resented colonial practises. Francophone residents of Quebec, for example, were vocal in opposing conscription into the armed services to fight on behalf of Britain during World War I, resulting in the Conscription crisis of 1917. Other European colonies had much more pronounced conflict between European settlers and the local population. Rebellions broke out in the later decades of the imperial era, such as India's Sepoy Rebellion. The territorial boundaries imposed by European colonizers, notably in central Africa
Africa and South Asia, defied the existing boundaries of native populations that had previously interacted little with one another. European colonizers disregarded native political and cultural animosities, imposing peace upon people under their military control. Native populations were often relocated at the will of the colonial administrators. Once independence from European control was achieved, civil war erupted in some former colonies, as native populations fought to capture territory for their own ethnic, cultural or political group.[citation needed] The Partition of India, a 1947 civil war that came in the aftermath of India's independence from Britain, became a conflict with 500,000 killed. Fighting erupted between Hindu, Sikh and Muslim communities as they fought for territorial dominance. Muslims fought for an independent country to be partitioned where they would not be a religious minority, resulting in the creation of Pakistan.[32] Post-independence population movement[edit]

The annual Notting Hill Carnival
Notting Hill Carnival in London
London is a celebration led by the Trinidadian and Tobagonian British community.

In a reversal of the migration patterns experienced during the modern colonial era, post-independence era migration followed a route back towards the imperial country. In some cases, this was a movement of settlers of European origin returning to the land of their birth, or to an ancestral birthplace. 900,000 French colonists (known as the Pied-Noirs) resettled in France
France following Algeria's independence in 1962. A significant number of these migrants were also of Algerian descent. 800,000 people of Portuguese origin migrated to Portugal after the independence of former colonies in Africa
Africa between 1974 and 1979; 300,000 settlers of Dutch origin migrated to the Netherlands from the Dutch West Indies
Dutch West Indies after Dutch military control of the colony ended.[33] After WWII 300,000 Dutchmen from the Dutch East Indies, of which the majority were people of Eurasian descent called Indo Europeans, repatriated to the Netherlands. A significant number later migrated to the US, Canada, Australia
Australia and New Zealand.[34][35] Global travel and migration in general developed at an increasingly brisk pace throughout the era of European colonial expansion. Citizens of the former colonies of European countries may have a privileged status in some respects with regard to immigration rights when settling in the former European imperial nation. For example, rights to dual citizenship may be generous,[36] or larger immigrant quotas may be extended to former colonies. In some cases, the former European imperial nations continue to foster close political and economic ties with former colonies. The Commonwealth of Nations
Commonwealth of Nations is an organization that promotes cooperation between and among Britain and its former colonies, the Commonwealth members. A similar organization exists for former colonies of France, the Francophonie; the Community of Portuguese Language Countries
Community of Portuguese Language Countries plays a similar role for former Portuguese colonies, and the Dutch Language Union is the equivalent for former colonies of the Netherlands. Migration from former colonies has proven to be problematic for European countries, where the majority population may express hostility to ethnic minorities who have immigrated from former colonies. Cultural and religious conflict have often erupted in France in recent decades, between immigrants from the Maghreb
Maghreb countries of north Africa
Africa and the majority population of France. Nonetheless, immigration has changed the ethnic composition of France; by the 1980s, 25% of the total population of "inner Paris" and 14% of the metropolitan region were of foreign origin, mainly Algerian.[37] Introduced diseases[edit] See also: Globalization and disease, Columbian Exchange, and Impact and evaluation of colonialism and colonization

Aztecs dying of smallpox, ("The Florentine Codex" 1540–85)

Encounters between explorers and populations in the rest of the world often introduced new diseases, which sometimes caused local epidemics of extraordinary virulence.[38] For example, smallpox, measles, malaria, yellow fever, and others were unknown in pre-Columbian America.[39] Disease killed the entire native (Guanches) population of the Canary Islands in the 16th century. Half the native population of Hispaniola in 1518 was killed by smallpox. Smallpox
Smallpox also ravaged Mexico
Mexico in the 1520s, killing 150,000 in Tenochtitlan
Tenochtitlan alone, including the emperor, and Peru
Peru in the 1530s, aiding the European conquerors. Measles
Measles killed a further two million Mexican natives in the 17th century. In 1618–1619, smallpox wiped out 90% of the Massachusetts Bay
Massachusetts Bay Native Americans.[40] Smallpox
Smallpox epidemics in 1780–1782 and 1837–1838 brought devastation and drastic depopulation among the Plains Indians.[41] Some believe that the death of up to 95% of the Native American population of the New World
New World was caused by Old World diseases.[42] Over the centuries, the Europeans had developed high degrees of immunity to these diseases, while the indigenous peoples had no time to build such immunity.[43] Smallpox
Smallpox decimated the native population of Australia, killing around 50% of indigenous Australians in the early years of British colonisation.[44] It also killed many New Zealand
New Zealand Māori.[45] As late as 1848–49, as many as 40,000 out of 150,000 Hawaiians are estimated to have died of measles, whooping cough and influenza. Introduced diseases, notably smallpox, nearly wiped out the native population of Easter Island.[46] In 1875, measles killed over 40,000 Fijians, approximately one-third of the population.[47] The Ainu population decreased drastically in the 19th century, due in large part to infectious diseases brought by Japanese settlers pouring into Hokkaido.[48] Conversely, researchers have hypothesized that a precursor to syphilis may have been carried from the New World
New World to Europe after Columbus's voyages. The findings suggested Europeans could have carried the nonvenereal tropical bacteria home, where the organisms may have mutated into a more deadly form in the different conditions of Europe.[49] The disease was more frequently fatal than it is today; syphilis was a major killer in Europe during the Renaissance.[50] The first cholera pandemic began in Bengal, then spread across India
India by 1820. Ten thousand British troops and countless Indians died during this pandemic.[51] Between 1736 and 1834 only some 10% of East India Company's officers survived to take the final voyage home.[52] Waldemar Haffkine, who mainly worked in India, who developed and used vaccines against cholera and bubonic plague in the 1890s, is considered the first microbiologist. Countering disease[edit] As early as 1803, the Spanish Crown organised a mission (the Balmis expedition) to transport the smallpox vaccine to the Spanish colonies, and establish mass vaccination programs there.[53] By 1832, the federal government of the United States
United States established a smallpox vaccination program for Native Americans.[54] Under the direction of Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mountstuart Elphinstone a program was launched to propagate smallpox vaccination in India.[55] From the beginning of the 20th century onwards, the elimination or control of disease in tropical countries became a driving force for all colonial powers.[56] The sleeping sickness epidemic in Africa
Africa was arrested due to mobile teams systematically screening millions of people at risk.[57] In the 20th century, the world saw the biggest increase in its population in human history due to lessening of the mortality rate in many countries due to medical advances.[58] The world population has grown from 1.6 billion in 1900 to over seven billion today. Colonialism
Colonialism and the history of thought[edit] See also: Historiography of the British Empire Universalism[edit] The conquest of vast territories brings multitudes of diverse cultures under the central control of the imperial authorities. From the time of Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of universalism, and applying it to their imperial policies towards their subjects far from the imperial capitol. The capitol, the metropole, was the source of ostensibly enlightened policies imposed throughout the distant colonies. The empire that grew from Greek conquest, particularly by Alexander the Great, spurred the spread of Greek language, religion, science and philosophy throughout the colonies. While most Greeks considered their own culture superior to all others (the word barbarian is derived from mutterings that sounded to Greek ears like "bar-bar"), Alexander was unique in promoting a campaign to win the hearts and minds of the Persians. He adopted Persian customs of clothing and otherwise encouraged his men to go native by adopting local wives and learning their mannerisms. Of note is that he radically departed from earlier Greek attempts at colonization, characterized by the murder and enslavement of the local inhabitants and the settling of Greek citizens from the polis. Roman universalism was characterized by cultural and religious tolerance and a focus on civil efficiency and the rule of law. Roman law was imposed on both Roman citizens and colonial subjects. Although Imperial Rome had no public education, Latin
Latin spread through its use in government and trade. Roman law
Roman law prohibited local leaders to wage war between themselves, which was responsible for the 200 year long Pax Romana, at the time the longest period of peace in history. The Roman Empire was tolerant of diverse cultures and religious practises, even allowing them on a few occasions to threaten Roman authority. Colonialism
Colonialism and geography[edit]

British Togoland
British Togoland in 1953

Settlers acted as the link between indigenous populations and the imperial hegemony, thus bridging the geographical, ideological and commercial gap between the colonizers and colonized. While the extent in which geography as an academic study is implicated in colonialism is contentious, geographical tools such as cartography, shipbuilding, navigation, mining and agricultural productivity were instrumental in European colonial expansion. Colonizers' awareness of the Earth's surface and abundance of practical skills provided colonizers with a knowledge that, in turn, created power.[59] Anne Godlewska and Neil Smith argue that "empire was 'quintessentially a geographical project'".[clarification needed][60] Historical geographical theories such as environmental determinism legitimized colonialism by positing the view that some parts of the world were underdeveloped, which created notions of skewed evolution.[59] Geographers such as Ellen Churchill Semple
Ellen Churchill Semple and Ellsworth Huntington put forward the notion that northern climates bred vigour and intelligence as opposed to those indigenous to tropical climates (See The Tropics) viz a viz a combination of environmental determinism and Social Darwinism
Social Darwinism in their approach.[61] Political geographers also maintain that colonial behavior was reinforced by the physical mapping of the world, therefore creating a visual separation between "them" and "us". Geographers are primarily focused on the spaces of colonialism and imperialism; more specifically, the material and symbolic appropriation of space enabling colonialism.[62]:5 Maps played an extensive role in colonialism, as Bassett would put it "by providing geographical information in a convenient and standardized format, cartographers helped open West Africa
Africa to European conquest, commerce, and colonization".[63] However, because the relationship between colonialism and geography was not scientifically objective, cartography was often manipulated during the colonial era. Social norms and values had an effect on the constructing of maps. During colonialism map-makers used rhetoric in their formation of boundaries and in their art. The rhetoric favored the view of the conquering Europeans; this is evident in the fact that any map created by a non-European was instantly regarded as inaccurate. Furthermore, European cartographers were required to follow a set of rules which led to ethnocentrism; portraying one's own ethnicity in the center of the map. As Harley would put it "The steps in making a map – selection, omission, simplification, classification, the creation of hierarchies, and 'symbolization' – are all inherently rhetorical."[64] A common practice by the European cartographers of the time was to map unexplored areas as "blank spaces". This influenced the colonial powers as it sparked competition amongst them to explore and colonize these regions. Imperialists aggressively and passionately looked forward to filling these spaces for the glory of their respective countries.[65] The Dictionary of Human Geography notes that cartography was used to empty 'undiscovered' lands of their Indigenous meaning and bring them into spatial existence via the imposition of "Western place-names and borders, [therefore] priming "virgin" (putatively empty land, "wilderness") for colonization (thus sexualizing colonial landscapes as domains of male penetration), reconfiguring alien space as absolute, quantifiable and separable (as property)."[66] David Livingstone stresses "that geography has meant different things at different times and in different places" and that we should keep an open mind in regards to the relationship between geography and colonialism instead of identifying boundaries.[60] Geography as a discipline was not and is not an objective science, Painter and Jeffrey argue, rather it is based on assumptions about the physical world.[59] Colonialism
Colonialism and imperialism[edit]

Governor-General Félix Éboué
Félix Éboué welcomes Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle to Chad

A colony is a part of an empire and so colonialism is closely related to imperialism. Assumptions are that colonialism and imperialism are interchangeable, however Robert J. C. Young suggests that imperialism is the concept while colonialism is the practice. Colonialism
Colonialism is based on an imperial outlook, thereby creating a consequential relationship. Through an empire, colonialism is established and capitalism is expanded, on the other hand a capitalist economy naturally enforces an empire. In the next section Marxists make a case for this mutually reinforcing relationship. Marxist view of colonialism[edit] Marxism views colonialism as a form of capitalism, enforcing exploitation and social change. Marx thought that working within the global capitalist system, colonialism is closely associated with uneven development. It is an "instrument of wholesale destruction, dependency and systematic exploitation producing distorted economies, socio-psychological disorientation, massive poverty and neocolonial dependency".[67] Colonies are constructed into modes of production. The search for raw materials and the current search for new investment opportunities is a result of inter-capitalist rivalry for capital accumulation. Lenin regarded colonialism as the root cause of imperialism, as imperialism was distinguished by monopoly capitalism via colonialism and as Lyal S. Sunga
Lyal S. Sunga explains: "Vladimir Lenin advocated forcefully the principle of self-determination of peoples in his "Theses on the Socialist Revolution and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination" as an integral plank in the programme of socialist internationalism" and he quotes Lenin who contended that "The right of nations to self-determination implies exclusively the right to independence in the political sense, the right to free political separation from the oppressor nation. Specifically, this demand for political democracy implies complete freedom to agitate for secession and for a referendum on secession by the seceding nation."[68] Non Russian marxists within the RSFSR and later the USSR, like Sultan Galiev and Vasyl Shakhrai, meanwhile, between 1918 and 1923 and then after 1929, considered the Soviet Regime a renewed version of the Russian imperialism and colonialism. In his critique of colonialism in Africa, the Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney
Walter Rodney states:

"The decisiveness of the short period of colonialism and its negative consequences for Africa
Africa spring mainly from the fact that Africa
Africa lost power. Power is the ultimate determinant in human society, being basic to the relations within any group and between groups. It implies the ability to defend one's interests and if necessary to impose one's will by any means available ... When one society finds itself forced to relinquish power entirely to another society that in itself is a form of underdevelopment ... During the centuries of pre-colonial trade, some control over social political and economic life was retained in Africa, in spite of the disadvantageous commerce with Europeans. That little control over internal matters disappeared under colonialism. Colonialism
Colonialism went much further than trade. It meant a tendency towards direct appropriation by Europeans of the social institutions within Africa. Africans ceased to set indigenous cultural goals and standards, and lost full command of training young members of the society. Those were undoubtedly major steps backwards ... Colonialism
Colonialism was not merely a system of exploitation, but one whose essential purpose was to repatriate the profits to the so-called 'mother country'. From an African view-point, that amounted to consistent expatriation of surplus produced by African labour out of African resources. It meant the development of Europe as part of the same dialectical process in which Africa
Africa was underdeveloped.

"Colonial Africa
Africa fell within that part of the international capitalist economy from which surplus was drawn to feed the metropolitan sector. As seen earlier, exploitation of land and labour is essential for human social advance, but only on the assumption that the product is made available within the area where the exploitation takes place."[69][70]

According to Lenin, the new imperialism emphasized the transition of capitalism from free trade to a stage of monopoly capitalism to finance capital. He states it is, "connected with the intensification of the struggle for the partition of the world". As free trade thrives on exports of commodities, monopoly capitalism thrived on the export of capital amassed by profits from banks and industry. This, to Lenin, was the highest stage of capitalism. He goes on to state that this form of capitalism was doomed for war between the capitalists and the exploited nations with the former inevitably losing. War is stated to be the consequence of imperialism. As a continuation of this thought G. N. Uzoigwe states, "But it is now clear from more serious investigations of African history in this period that imperialism was essentially economic in its fundamental impulses." [71] Liberalism, capitalism and colonialism[edit] Classical liberals
Classical liberals were generally in abstract opposition to colonialism (as opposed to colonization) and imperialism, including Adam Smith, Frédéric Bastiat, Richard Cobden, John Bright, Henry Richard, Herbert Spencer, H. R. Fox Bourne, Edward Morel, Josephine Butler, W. J. Fox and William Ewart Gladstone.[72] Their philosophies found the colonial enterprise, particularly mercantilism, in opposition to the principles of free trade and liberal policies.[73] Adam Smith
Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations
The Wealth of Nations that Britain should grant independence to all of its colonies and also argued that it would be economically beneficial for British people in the average, although the merchants having mercantilist privileges would lose out.[72][74] Scientific thought in colonialism, race and gender[edit] During the colonial era, the global process of colonization served to spread and synthesize the social and political belief systems of the "mother-countries" which often included a belief in a certain natural racial superiority of the race of the mother-country. Colonialism
Colonialism also acted to reinforce these same racial belief systems within the "mother-countries" themselves. Usually also included within the colonial belief systems was a certain belief in the inherent superiority of male over female, however this particular belief was often pre-existing amongst the pre-colonial societies, prior to their colonization.[75][76][77] Popular political practices of the time reinforced colonial rule by legitimizing European (and/ or Japanese) male authority, and also legitimizing female and non-mother-country race inferiority through studies of Craniology, Comparative Anatomy, and Phrenology.[76][77][78] Biologists, naturalists, anthropologists, and ethnologists of the 19th century were focused on the study of colonized indigenous women, as in the case of Georges Cuvier's study of Sarah Baartman.[77] Such cases embraced a natural superiority and inferiority relationship between the races based on the observations of naturalists' from the mother-countries. European studies along these lines gave rise to the perception that African women's anatomy, and especially genitalia, resembled those of mandrills, baboons, and monkeys, thus differentiating colonized Africans from what were viewed as the features of the evolutionarily superior, and thus rightfully authoritarian, European woman.[77] In addition to what would now be viewed as pseudo-scientific studies of race, which tended to reinforce a belief in an inherent mother-country racial superiority, a new supposedly "science-based" ideology concerning gender roles also then emerged as an adjunct to the general body of beliefs of inherent superiority of the colonial era.[76] Female inferiority across all cultures was emerging as an idea supposedly supported by craniology that led scientists to argue that the typical brain size of the female human was, on the average, slightly smaller than that of the male, thus inferring that therefore female humans must be less developed and less evolutionarily advanced than males.[76] This finding of relative cranial size difference was later simply attributed to the general typical size difference of the human male body versus that of the typical human female body.[79] Within the former European colonies, non-Europeans and women sometimes faced invasive studies by the colonial powers in the interest of the then prevailing pro-colonial scientific ideology of the day.[77] Such seemingly flawed studies of race and gender coincided with the era of colonialism and the initial introduction of foreign cultures, appearances, and gender roles into the now gradually widening world-views of the scholars of the mother-countries. Post-colonialism[edit] Main articles: Post-colonialism
Post-colonialism and Postcolonial literature Further information: Dutch Indies literature

Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria Street in the former British colony of Hong Kong

Post-colonialism
Post-colonialism (or post-colonial theory) can refer to a set of theories in philosophy and literature that grapple with the legacy of colonial rule. In this sense, postcolonial literature may be considered a branch of postmodern literature concerned with the political and cultural independence of peoples formerly subjugated in colonial empires. Many practitioners take Edward Saïd's book Orientalism
Orientalism (1978) as the theory's founding work (although French theorists such as Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire and Frantz Fanon
Frantz Fanon made similar claims decades before Saïd). Saïd analyzed the works of Balzac, Baudelaire and Lautréamont arguing that they helped to shape a societal fantasy of European racial superiority. Writers of post-colonial fiction interact with the traditional colonial discourse, but modify or subvert it; for instance by retelling a familiar story from the perspective of an oppressed minor character in the story. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak? (1998) gave its name to Subaltern Studies. In A Critique of Postcolonial Reason (1999), Spivak argued that major works of European metaphysics (such as those of Kant and Hegel) not only tend to exclude the subaltern from their discussions, but actively prevent non-Europeans from occupying positions as fully human subjects. Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), famous for its explicit ethnocentrism, considers Western civilization as the most accomplished of all, while Kant also had some traces of racialism in his work. Colonial migrations[edit] Further information: Settler colonialism
Settler colonialism and Greater Europe Nations and regions outside Europe with significant populations of European ancestry[80]

Boer
Boer family in South Africa, 1886

Africa
Africa (see Europeans in Africa)

South Africa
Africa (European South African): 9.6% of the population[81] Namibia
Namibia (European Namibians): 6% of the population, of which most are Afrikaans-speaking, in addition to a German-speaking minority.[82] Réunion
Réunion estimated to be approx. 25% of the population[83] Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (Europeans in Zimbabwe) Algeria
Algeria (Pied-noir)[84] Botswana[85] Kenya
Kenya (Europeans in Kenya) Mauritius
Mauritius (Franco-Mauritian) Morocco
Morocco (European Moroccans)[86] Ivory Coast
Ivory Coast (French people)[87] Senegal[88] Canary Islands
Canary Islands (Spaniards), known as Canarians. Seychelles
Seychelles (Franco-Seychellois) Somalia
Somalia (Italian Somalis) Eritrea
Eritrea (Italian Eritreans) Saint Helena
Saint Helena (UK) including Tristan da Cunha
Tristan da Cunha (UK): predominantly European. Swaziland: 3% of the population[89] Tunisia
Tunisia (European Tunisians)[90]

Russian settlers in Central Asia, present-day Kazakhstan, 1911

Asia

Siberia
Siberia (Russians, Germans and Ukrainians)[91][92] Israel
Israel (Europeans) (See: Aliyah)[93] Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan ( Russians
Russians in Kazakhstan, Germans of Kazakhstan): 30% of the population[94][95] Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan ( Russians
Russians and other Slavs): 5.5% of the population[95] Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan ( Russians
Russians and other Slavs): 13.5% of the population[95][96][97] Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan ( Russians
Russians and other Slavs): 4% of the population[95][98] Tajikistan
Tajikistan ( Russians
Russians and other Slavs)[95][99] Hong Kong[100] Philippines
Philippines (Spanish Ancestry) 3% of the population People's Republic of China
China ( Russians
Russians in China) Indian subcontinent
Indian subcontinent (Anglo-Indians)

Latin America
Latin America (see White Latin
Latin American)

Italian immigrants arriving in São Paulo, Brazil, c. 1890

Argentina
Argentina (European Immigration
Immigration to Argentina): 97% of the population[101] Bolivia: 15% of the population[102] Brazil
Brazil (White Brazilian): 47.3% of the population[103] Chile
Chile (White Chilean): 60%-70% of the population.[104][105][106] Colombia
Colombia (White Colombian): 20% of the population[107] Costa Rica[108] Cuba
Cuba (White Cuban): 65% of the population[109] Dominican Republic: 16% of the population[110] Ecuador: 7% of the population[111] El Salvador: 12% of the population[112] Mexico
Mexico (White Mexican): 9% or ~17% of the population.[113][114] and 70-80% more as Mestizos.[115][116] Nicaragua: 17% of the population[117] Panama
Panama 10% of the population[118] Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico approx. 80% of the population[119] Peru
Peru (European Peruvian): 15% of the population[120] Paraguay
Paraguay approx. 20% of the population[121] Venezuela
Venezuela (White Venezuelan): 42.2% of the population[122] Uruguay: 88% of the population[123]

Mennonites of German descent in Belize

Rest of the Americas

Bahamas: 12% of the population[124] Barbados
Barbados (White Barbadian): 4% of the population[125] Bermuda: 34.1% of the population[126] Canada: 80% of the population[127] Falkland Islands, mostly of British descent. French Guiana: 12% of the population[128] Greenland: 12% of the population[129] Martinique: 5% of the population[130] Saint Barthélemy[131] Trinidad and Tobago:[132] 0.6% of the population

Portuguese immigrant family in Hawaii
Hawaii during the 19th century

United States
United States (European American): 72.4% of the population, including Hispanic and Non-Hispanic Whites.

Oceania
Oceania (see Europeans in Oceania)

Australia: 89.3% of the population New Zealand
New Zealand ( New Zealand
New Zealand European): 78% of the population New Caledonia
New Caledonia (Caldoche): 34.5% of the population French Polynesia: 10% of the population[133] Hawaii: 24.7% of the population[134] Christmas Island: approx. 20% of the population. Guam: 6.9% of the population[135] Norfolk Island: 9→5% of the population