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Underlying this discussion has been an attempt to distinguish between the broad expansion of Europe and the more limited but growing phenomenon of domination or actual control of people and their territory by individual European powers. I have argued that those conditions which made for European expansion did not necessarily produce imperial consequences. When expansion manifested itself in the shape of informal or formal empire, when interest, influence or ambition were converted into control, that transformation can only be understood and explained by analysis of the politics, economy and society of both the European and extra-European parties involved in each particular case.
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Porter, A. (1994). Expansion and Empire. In: European Imperialism, 1860–1914. Studies in European History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10544-1_6
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