FROM EMPIRE TO DECOLONIZATION
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The topic ôFrom Empire to Decolonizationö implies the existence of a process that facilitated and explained the transition from one state (empire) to a second state (decolonization). The central question explored in this essay goes a step beyond this implication by asking: To what extent was decolonization a logical or even inevitable consequence of imperialism itself? 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). In considering the extent to which decolonization was an inevitable outcome of imperialism, the focus in
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