Sentence examples for effects of colonial from inspiring English sources

His noble background gave a conservative cast to his politics, but he was strongly nationalist and averse to the effects of colonial neglect.

These frightful possibilities aren't unintended consequences of the connectivity revolution; they're central to its appeal, just as violence and dominion weren't side effects of colonial "exploration" but fundamental to it.

After he saw the devastating effects of colonial plantations at Lake Valencia in Venezuela in 1800, Humboldt became the first scientist to talk about harmful human-induced climate change.

Many people were affected by this disaster, and the Krenak people, who sit on the edges of society, arguably feel the effects of colonial industry the worst.

As he traveled through Latin America, Humboldt recognized nature's vulnerability and the devastating environmental effects of colonial cash crop cultivation: Monoculture and deforestation made the land barren, washed away soil and drained lakes and rivers.

Modernismo, as Andrade depicted it, was formally tied to the innovations of recent European literature and based on the productive meeting of cultural forces in Brazil's diverse population; but it was fiercely nationalistic, based in large part on distinguishing Brazil's culture from the world and on documenting the damage caused by the lingering effects of colonial rule.

The long-term effect of colonial investments, and particularly physical access to schools, likely explains some but not all of this relationship in the current period.

Now 20 years after the first Swedish edition, he says with some pride, that thanks to his book there is a thriving field of historical research on the effect of colonial atrocities on Nazi crimes.

The displacing and alienating effects of a colonial past on today's post-colonial peoples has been Naipaul's leading theme ever since, once past his early Trinidad novels, he broke through the colors to the gray underneath.

Another acquaintance was W. Bosch, chief of the public health services in the colony, who had written critically on the effects of the colonial system on the health of the population, arguing to his superiors that they should help combat poverty, malnourishment, and communicable diseases.

Schapera worked with both British and native political structures in his studies of land tenure and migration and was able to analyze the effects of government colonial policy in several areas.