The Imperialism of States

Abstract

The growth of nationalist sentiment and the increasing identification of the state with the nation was not the only development during the nineteenth century which altered the views that were generally held about the role of the state and of relations between states. Another was the acquisition, or extension, by many European states of substantial overseas empires. This not only created a new kind of international relationship between the colonial powers and the peoples they had mastered, but substantially influenced relations among the colonial powers themselves.