USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Imperialism can be defined as a doctrine, political strategy, practice, state policy, or advocacy that consists in extending power by territorial acquisition or by extending political and economic control outward over other areas.

Detailed explanation-2: -the policy of extending the rule or authority of an empire or nation over foreign countries, or of acquiring and holding colonies and dependencies.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term imperialism was originally introduced into English in its present sense in the late 1870s by opponents of the allegedly aggressive and ostentatious imperial policies of British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. Supporters of “imperialism” such as Joseph Chamberlain quickly appropriated the concept.

Detailed explanation-4: -Between 1900 and the end of World War I, the concept of imperialism developed among Marxist thinkers and activists to denote the contemporary expansion of formal colonial empires and the intense conflicts over that expansion among particular capitalist industrialized countries.

Detailed explanation-5: -The original meaning of imperialism was a simple one: “imperial government, ” that is, empire in the classical sense (such as existed in ancient Rome, China, and Greece).