These terms were common during the heights of European colonial expansion, but still continue in modern times.

European cultural ideas and institutions began to follow colonial expansion into other parts of the world.

It was not until the early 1890s that domestic political support for colonial expansion revived in France.

A second meaning came about as a result of European colonial expansion in the nineteenth century.

As so often during the era of European colonial expansion, religion offered an excuse for intervention.

From the beginning, it was evident that he was prepared to give effect to a policy of colonial expansion.

Anthropology was originally practiced in the context of colonial expansion.

The ideas of eugenics and race were used, in part, as justification for German colonial expansion throughout the world.

One of the major concerns for the British government of the era was colonial expansion.

By 1880, there was a renewed thrust of European colonial expansion.