colonial expansion
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcolonialandexpansion
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colonial
adjective
uk/kəˈləʊ.ni.əl/us/kəˈloʊ.ni.əl/
relating to a colony ...
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expansion
noun[C or U]
uk/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/us/ɪkˈspæn.ʃən/
the increase of something in size, number, ...
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(Definition ofcolonialandexpansionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Numbers due to large genetically homogeneous population sizes are different from those due tocolonialexpansionand assimilation.
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For landed and mercantile elites obtained, as a result ofcolonialexpansion, by the 1830s, a growing measure of control over labour.
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Colonialexpansionchanged women's relation to physical exertion.
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Even in the eighteenth century, a time of assertive central power not to be repeated until the 1950s,colonialexpansionwas not a steamroller.
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They also provide succinct information on population numbers, especially in the period ofcolonialexpansion.
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Their independence challenged bycolonialexpansion, some individuals retreated beyond the colonial frontier.
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The simultaneous processes of local re-construction and regionalcolonialexpansionaccount for major changes in gender relations, land rights and religion, all of which are dealt with by the author.
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But whilecolonialexpansionand the discovery of "new" objects can account for the quantitative expansion of natural history, it cannot account for the qualitative changes in classificatory methods.
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Later, in the 18th-century there wascolonialexpansion, followed by free trade in the 19th century.
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In the early eighteenth centurycolonialexpansionand exploration created a demand for the description of thousands of new organisms.
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Khoikhoi social organisation was profoundly damaged and, in the end, destroyed bycolonialexpansionand land seizure from the late 17th century onwards.
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The old colonial planters had developed into a strong aristocracy noted for supporting additionalcolonialexpansionwestward.
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An important task assigned to the colonial botanical gardens was dealing with malaria, the largest obstacle tocolonialexpansion.
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European cultural ideas and institutions began to followcolonialexpansioninto other parts of the world.
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Anthropology was originally practiced in the context ofcolonialexpansion.
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This theory led to high protective tariffs to maximize the use of domestic resources,colonialexpansionand exclusivity of trade with those colonies.
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By the late 1730s pressure fromcolonialexpansionproduced repeated conflicts.
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