from III - European Diffusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 September 2022
Chapter 10 presents case study evidence for the foregoing theory from colonial areas under the control of a single European colonizer. It focuses on four European empires – British, French, Spanish, and Portuguese – because of their extensive historical literatures and because they have the greatest within-empire variation. These cases demonstrate that Europeans brought representative democratic practices (along with their religion, culture, language, and technology) to their colonies and that they spread these institutions where they (Europeans) were sufficiently numerous to control the political outcomes. As a result, democracy became a tool of white supremacy.
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