ABSTRACT
The West has been involved in colonial activity for almost six centuries. No area of the world has managed to avoid being affected completely by this experience. Places as diverse as Gibraltar and the Falkland Islands are still areas of contention.1 The dismantling of the major colonial empires held by the Western powers has been one of the key
of absence of mind JOHN ROBERT SEELEY, NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORIAN
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, BRITISH COLONIAL SECRETARY
Joseph N. Weatherby
political developments since World War II. The postwar period has witnessed the rise of both neocolonialism and nationalism as major features of the Other World. This chapter discusses Western colonialism, neocolonialism, and the Other World’s reaction to those events, that is, nationalism.
