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A History of Colonialism: Creating an ‘Index of Possessions and Colonies’ Database and Its Analysis, 1000-2015

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2018, 75(1), pp.361-393
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.75.1.201802.361
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : January 14, 2018
  • Accepted : February 1, 2018
  • Published : February 28, 2018

Sun Jae Won 1

1평택대학교

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ABSTRACT

In this paper, we created a time series database of ‘Index of Possessions and Colonies’ for the number of areas ruled by colonizers from 1000 to 2015 to complement Etmad’s accomplishment which investigated the ratio of ruled areas and populations during the 18th to the 20th century. We, furthermore, undertook analysis with the aim of criticizing economic historical studies which have focused on living standards, such as Clark concerning the UK, and Cha concerning Korea. During 1000-1487, the UK started its pursuit of Italy which was the strongest colonizer, and many colonizers competed with each other during the Rival Warlords Age, in other words the Exploration Age of 1488-1689. The UK became the most powerful colonizer in history during 1690-1918, after advancing into Africa and Asia even though she lost many colonies in the American Continent. During this period, France increased her ruled areas in Africa and Asia and became the second largest colonizer even though she had lost many colonies after Napoleon abdicated from empire. Most colonizers started to decrease their ruled areas after the First World War, although they increased their ruled areas for a brief period during the Second World War. After the end of the Second World War, the number of ruled area decreased dramatically until 1992. We can recognize the ripple effect of decolonization through the population explosion and the rapid increasing rate of the GDP which took place after the end of the Second World War. One of the backgrounds of these ripple effects was that the ruled people had become liberated and participated in market activity freely without political restriction. In terms of the remaining ruled areas in 2015, we expect that it would be possible to decolonize in the future given the fact that areas that had a longer colonized history than the remaining ruled areas have also experienced decolonization.

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