Editing Imperialism (section)

== Etymology and usage ==
The word ''imperialism'' was derived from the Latin word {{lang|la|[[imperium]]}},<ref>{{Cite dictionary |first=Charlton T. |last=Lewis |title=Charlton T. Lewis, an Elementary Latin Dictionary, imperium (Inp-) |dictionary=An Elementary Latin Dictionary |entry=imperium (inp-) |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0060%3Aentry%3Dimperium |access-date=11 September 2016 |publisher=Tufts University}}</ref> which means 'to command', 'to be [[sovereign]]', or simply 'to rule'.<ref>Howe, 13</ref> It was coined in the 19th century to decry [[Napoleon III]]'s despotic militarism and his attempts at obtaining political support through foreign military interventions.<ref name="Magnusson">{{Cite book |last=Magnusson |first=Lars |title=Teorier om imperialism |year=1991 |isbn=978-91-550-3830-4 |page=19 |publisher=Tidens Förl. |language=sv}}</ref><ref>Steinmetz, George, (2014). "Empires, Imperial States, and Colonial Societies," ''Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology'', ed. Sasaki, Masamichi, (Leiden & Boston: Brill), p 59, http://www-personal.umich.edu/~geostein/docs/Steinmetz%202014%20Empires%20imperial%20states%20and%20colonies.pdf</ref> The term became common in the current sense in Great Britain during the 1870s; by the 1880s it was used with a positive connotation.<ref>Kumar, Krishan (2017). ''Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World'', (New Jersey: Princeton University Press), p 16, EISBN 978-1-4008-8491-9 https://assets.press.princeton.edu/chapters/s10967.pdf</ref> By the end of the 19th century, the term was used to describe the behavior of empires at all times and places.<ref>Sasaki 2014, p 59.</ref> [[Hannah Arendt]] and [[Joseph Schumpeter]] defined imperialism as expansion for the sake of expansion.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Knorr |first=Klaus |date=1952 |editor-last=Schumpeter |editor-first=Joseph A. |editor2-last=Arendt |editor2-first=Hannah |title=Theories of Imperialism |journal=World Politics |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=402–431 |doi=10.2307/2009130 |jstor=2009130 |s2cid=145320143 |issn=0043-8871}}</ref>

"Imperialism" was and is mainly used to refer to Western and Japanese political and economic dominance, especially in Asia and Africa, [[New Imperialism|in the 19th and 20th centuries]]. Its precise meaning continues to be debated by scholars. Some writers, such as [[Edward Said]], use the term more broadly to describe any system of domination and subordination organized around an imperial [[Core countries|core]] and a [[Periphery countries|periphery]].<ref name="Edward Said 1994. P. 9">Edward W. Said. Culture and Imperialism. Vintage Publishers, 1994. p. 9.</ref> This definition encompasses both nominal empires and [[neocolonialism]].