FROM EMPIRE TO DECOLONIZATION

From the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, Europeans migrated in relatively large numbers to the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In all of these regions, the Europeans established colonies, wherein the people indigenous to the regions were subordinated to the European migrants (Hochschild 26-27). In some areas ù all of the Americas, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, the European migrants eventually gained political independence from the European countries from whence they came, and they established what were, in effect, new European countries in the Americas, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand, in which the indigenous populations of those regions continued to be subjugated. In other regions ù most of Africa and parts of Asia, the European migrants acted as colonial overseers for the mother countries until political independence was gained by the indigenous populations of these countries subsequent to the end of the Second World War (Hochschild 272-273).

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