Compare And Contrast British And French Imperialism

In essence imperialism was all about the stronger countries dominating weaker countries and ruling them under their own political power thus colonizing them. This would also include possessing their land and taking control of their natural resources. This became a major trend in global politics during the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. This trend was also the source of many major historical events that occurred within that timeframe. Britain and France are both typical examples of imperialism since both had the same aims of exploitation. Both countries were also comparable in prestige and power. To an extent both the French and British Empires shared many similarities as well as differences. Both Britain and France colonized

Both the British and French Empires had the same intentions of colonialism. It was all about power, prestige and economical gain through exploitation of other countries. The major difference between the British and French decolonization was the method with which they were carried out. The British accepted that they could not keep control of their colonies indefinitely and therefore went about trying to give them independence, however, the French on the other hand refused to give their colonies independence easily. In their colonies, both were opposed with nationalist groups, which made them to deploy large numbers of their army in order to protect their colonies. It was a very expensive process and was another factor for ecolonization. The cost of maintaining colonial ties with countries out weighed the benefits of those ties. This was ecoloni by Britain soon after the war but wasn’t ecoloni by France until De Gaulle came back into power in 1958. Both Empires dived up their colonies such as India and Indo- China. The ecolonization process from both Empires also resulted in many deaths, mainly to the people of their colonies. In the end, though the French were more aggressive to let go of her colonies than the British, they both granted most of their colonies their independence by