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| world in which nations are economically and politically interdependent |
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| a single world system committed to production for sale or exchange, with the object of maximizing profits, rather than supplying domestic needs |
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| wealth or resources invested in business, with the intent of using the means of production to make a profit |
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| identifiable social system, based on wealth and power differentials, extends beyond individual countries |
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| geographic center, the dominant position in the world system, includes the strongest and most powerful nations |
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| intermediate between the core and the periphery. contemporary nations of the semiperiphery are industrialized. export both industrial goods and commodities but lack the power and economic dominance of core nations |
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| includes the world's least privileged and powerful countries |
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| plantation economy based on a single cash crop |
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| the historical transformation, (in Europe after 1750) of "traditional" into "modern" societies through industrialization of the economy |
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| owners of the factories, mines, large farms, and other means of production |
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| working class, made up of people who had to sell their labor to survive |
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| the separation of means of communication, the schools, and other key institutions |
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| recognition of collective interests and personal identification with one's economic group |
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| policy of extending the rule of a country or empire over foreign nations and of taking and holding foreign colonies |
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| political, social, economic, and cultural domination of a territory and its people by foreign power for an extended time |
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| French equivalent of Britain's "white man's burden" |
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| one form of French colonial rule, indirect rule governs through native leaders and established political structures in areas with long histories of state organizations (i.e. Morocco and Tunisia) |
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| one form of French colonial rule, French officials in many areas of Africa, where the French imposed new government structures to control diverse societies, many of them previously stateless |
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| study of the interactions between European nations and the societies they colonized (mainly after 1800) |
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| an ideological justification for outsiders to guide native peoples in specific directions |
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| current form of the classic economic liberalism laid out in Adam Smith's famous capitalist manifesto |
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| aims at liberating or freeing the economy from government control |
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| former Soviet Union and the socialist and once-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and Asia |
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| "less developed countries" or developing nations" |
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| describes a social system in which property is owned by the community and in which people work for the common good |
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| political movement and doctrine seeking to overthrow capitalism and to establish a form of communism such as that which prevailed in the Soviet Union from 1917 to 1991 |
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| promoting obedience to authority rather than individual freedom |
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| banning rival parties and demanding total submission of the individual to the state |
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| emphasize bureaucratic redistribution of wealth according to a central plan |
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| the abuse of public office of private gain |
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| original inhabitants of their territories |
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