Political Science · Comparative Political Analysis
UGC NET 2023 Political Science
Which one of the following is not listed in the classification of colonialism given by Nancy Shoemaker?
AExtractive Colonialism
BTrade Colonialism
CLegal Colonialism
DCultural Colonialism ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) Cultural Colonialism — Cultural colonialism is not part of Nancy Shoemaker's classification, so it is the answer.
Explanation
★Cultural colonialism is not part of Nancy Shoemaker's classification, so it is the answer.
★Shoemaker, a historian at the University of Connecticut, set out a typology of distinct colonial forms.
★Her types include settler, planter, extractive, trade, transport and legal colonialism among others.
★Extractive colonialism drains a territory's resources for the colonising economy.
★Trade colonialism works through control of commerce and trade routes.
★Colonialism also unfolded in three stages, the first being monopoly of trade and plunder.
★Legal colonialism imposes the coloniser's law and jurisdiction on the colonised.
★Among the broader forms of colonialism are settler, plantation and internal colonialism.
★Cultural colonialism, the imposition of culture and language, is a common idea but not one of her listed categories.
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