NOUN | a colonial power | colonial powers | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- During its time as a colonial power in Mozambique, the Catholic Portuguese government tried to counter the spread of Evangelical Protestantism.
- His book "Wretched of the Earth" is quoted directly in the preface of Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) and Charles Hamilton's book, "Black Power: The Politics of Liberation" Another example is the indictment of the black middle class or what Fanon called the "colonized intellectual" as the indoctrinated followers of the colonial power.
- Mahmood Mamdani states that the Belgian colonial power designated people as Tutsi or Hutu on the basis of cattle ownership, physical measurements and church records.
- Proponents of this account point to Rwanda as an example because the Tutsi/Hutu distinction was codified by the Belgian colonial power in the 1930s on the basis of cattle ownership, physical measurements and church records.
- During the 1920s the contestation of French colonial power in Cambodia and Laos was mostly aimed at the "corvée" and tax policies, continuing from the war period.
- In North America, France's future as a colonial power effectively ended with the recognition of British claims to Rupert's Land, and the ceding of New France to Britain (leaving a sizeable French-speaking population under British control) and Louisiana to Spain.
- The final chapter of the classical gold standard ending in 1914 saw the gold exchange standard extended to many Asian countries by fixing the value of local currencies to gold or to the gold standard currency of a Western colonial power.
- Neither the language with the most native speakers (Javanese) nor the language of the former European colonial power (Dutch) was to be adopted.
- The relationship between Britain and the German Empire, at that time the nearest relevant colonial power, was formalized by the 1890 Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty, in which Germany agreed to "recognize the British protectorate over ...
- France, the former colonial power, in particular, continues to provide significant aid and supports Compaoré's developing role as a regional powerbroker.
- Compaoré argued that Sankara had jeopardised foreign relations with the former colonial power (France) and with neighbouring Ivory Coast.
- Niger maintains a special relationship with former colonial power France and has close relations with its West African neighbors.
- The Louisiana Purchase was negotiated between France and the United States, without consulting the various Indian tribes who lived on the land and who had not ceded the land to any colonial power.
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