NATS 1775 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Paternalism, Civilizing Mission, Philosophy Of Science

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Colonization - the extension of political and economic control over an area by a state whose nationals have occupied the area and usually possess organizational or technological superiority over the native population. It may consist simply in migration of nationals to the territory or it may be the formal assumption of control over the territory by military or civil representatives of the dominant power columbia encyclopedia. Imperialism - commonly associated with the policy of direct extension of sovereignty and dominion over non-contiguous and often distant overseas territories, it also denotes indirect political or economical control of powerful states over weaker peoples. The civilizing mission - an idea of going into parts of the world where people were considered to be savages or heathens, in an attempt to civilize the people living there. Thought that they were doing a good thing by doing this. Gave them the tools which they believed would help them become more civil and advanced.

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