Civilization

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Civilization

Introduction

In today's perspective, it is very difficult to assess the importance of the British Empire without falling into an exaggeration. The civilization of today take for granted on the basis of not a few values that were born or came to life in the bosom of this great empire, but due to phase of British hegemony in the world. Today also most of the Asian countries like India, Pakistan, reflect the culture of Britain in terms of planning either it is governmental level planning or any other planning, they are still heavily influenced by British culture. However, overestimating this contribution would unfairly minimize inheritance accumulated in the history and would approach the future with a vision stuck, as if he got out he wanted to achieve optimal Humanity.

Concept of Imperialism and Colonialism

The concept of Imperialism and Colonialism is not an easy task to be explained and its identification is obvious in many cases. The historical sense of the term colonization has a wide range of showing different type of political control, economic or cultural differences in different periods of history. One can compares both the Greek colonization of the eighth century and Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the sixteenth century and can find many similarities. Some historians believe that the term colonialism implies a direct ownership relationship between the metropolis and the colonies (John, 2000).

Many people thinks that, the term imperialism would refer in terms of doing politics only but its modern version was minted in 1840 which contains a more limited meaning and becomes one of the most obscure of Science Policy. The use of this term denotes the increasing importance of economic motives in the colonial expansion that began in late nineteenth century.

Thus, from the late nineteenth century colonialism and imperialism grabs special attention. Imperialist politics practiced by European countries which largely follows the classical colonial formulas (direct political rule until the Second War World) and look for targets typically mercantilist (Stephen, 2004).

Talking about Great Britain, it is represented by the so-called "jingoism" which integrated both politicians Tories (Disraeli, Rhodes) and liberal-imperialist (Chamberlain). The jingoism was a movement of nationalist and racist British Empire who they considered themselves as the best people of the world. As they think they are "best race of the world" and should dominate inferior people of the world. This hyper feeling was feed by the British hegemony representing Germany and the United ...