ABSTRACT
To begin in a sense at the end with three significant quotations:
The Consequences of the ‘Expansion of Europe’
The rise and fall of the modern colonial empires have changed dramatically the human geography of the planet. The ‘expansion of Europe’ which began in the late fifteenth century … led, sometimes intentionally sometimes not, to the destruction of entire peoples who had been born and reared in colonies and whose futures, and sense of identity, were markedly divergent from those of either the European invaders or the societies of the Aboriginal populations. In its final phase it also created new states, and new political forms, or renewed and transformed versions of older political types, one of which — democratic republicanism — was to become the dominant ideology of the modern industrialised world. 1
