Meanings of colonial empires in English

From them also have arisen all the colonial empires of the European states.

Thus, the large colonial empires did not bring colonisation of Europe with slaves.

The European colonial empires had disintegrated, encouraging western Europeans to reinvent their own continent.

Thus was laid the foundation of the great colonial empires, and consequently, of world politics.

It's the only hope we've got of not having all the planets turned into colonial empires!

On the other are all the states formed out of the colonial empires of Spain and Portugal.

Actually military and naval installations were marking out and maintaining the defense perimeters of their respective colonial empires.

It had erected colonial empires, caused wars, lured millions of peasants from their farms, and built populous cities.

Of the other European powers, Portugal and Spain still preserved colonial empires in the West; but Spain was decaying.

The CIA would fight the enemy in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America-andwherever colonial empires crumbled.

In the postwar years, with the decline of colonial empires and the rise of active economic management, currency boards faded into oblivion.

All the main warring states were responsible for the brutal suppression of nations, large and small, throughout the racist despotisms that were their colonial empires.