CDNS 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Td Garden, Inuit Languages, Gerald Caplan
26 Feb 2017
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A population living in a new land with strong links to the land from which they moved, this population often maintains ties to the government of the previous homeland. Colony also refers to the newly settled land itself. Colonialism the policy or practice of acquiring full or partial . Some colonies develop through forcible separation from the home country, for example the penal colonies of australia or the leper colony of hawaii. The word colony comes from latin colonial, which itself is derived from the verb cooler, to till, to cultivate". Colony is related to the words wheel and cycle. In latin, colons are farmer - someone who turns the land. The first known use of colony in english occurred in the 1300"s. The practice of asserting cultural and/or economic control over another country or culture, without necessarily maintaining direct political control over that country or culture: also, connected to imperialism. Specifically, the economic control over another country or culture.
