  imperialism is "a policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonisation, use of military force, or other means".oxford dictionaries: id=5gchckkszz0c&printsec=frontcover&dq=dictionary+of+human+geography&hl=en&sa=x&ei=nah1udltnyfgqahcgocqdg&ved=0cdiq6aewaa the dictionary of human geography (5th ed.). wiley-blackwell. p. 373. isbn 978-1-4051-3288-6 lewis samuel feuer identifies two major subtypes of imperialism; the first is the "regressive imperialism" identified with pure conquest, unequivocal exploitation, extermination or reductions of undesired peoples, and the settlement of desired peoples into such territories.lewis samuel feuer. imperialism and the anti-imperialist mind. transaction publishers, 1989. p. 4. the second type identified by feuer is "progressive imperialism" founded upon a cosmopolitan view of humanity, that promotes the spread of civilisation to allegedly backward societies to elevate living standards and culture in conquered territories, with the allowance of a colonised people to assimilate into the imperial society, an example being the british empire which claimed to give their subjects a number of advantages.http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/105341 the term as such primarily has been applied to western political and economic dominance in the 19th and 20th centuries. some writers, such as edward said, use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organised with an imperial centre and a periphery.edward w. said. culture and imperialism. vintage publishers, 1994. p. 9. from a marxist perspective, imperialism is a natural feature of a developed capitalist nation state as it matures into monopoly capitalism. in lenin's work imperialism, the highest stage of capitalism, he observed that as capitalism matured in the western world, economies shifted away from manufacturing towards banking, finance, and capital markets, as production was outsourced to the empires' colonies. lenin concluded that competition between empires and the unfettered drive to maximise profit would lead to wars between the empires themselves, such as the contemporary [[first world 
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