Imperialismus est consilia, usus, vel sententia ut potestas diciove unius civitatis augeatur, praecipue a recta terrae adeptione, vel a regimine non recto de politica oeconomicave aliarum terrarum vita; latissime, is est propagatio potestatis, auctoritatis, vel potentiae.
Imperialismo saepe sunt duae significationes: haec actionem describit; haec animum.
1. Actio: Imperialismus est facinus potestatis, dicionis, vel regiminis extensi ab una civitate super terras praeter suos fines.
2. Animus: Imperialismus est opinio superioritatis super alios populos.
↑S. Gertrude Millin, Rhodes (London, 1933), p. 138.
Fontes
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