Translation of "Kolonialbesitz" in English

It reflects the efforts of Kurbrandenburg around overseas colonial possessions beginning around 1680.

France and England meanwhile added new colonial possessions in Africa and acquired trade enclaves in China.

The third epoch of history was a time when European nation-states fought each other for colonial possessions.

Up until 50 years or so ago, those countries formed the colonial property of France, Spain and Italy, and particularly in Algeria, independence was preceded by a lengthy and devastating war.

It was a result of the 1750 Treaty of Madrid, which set a line of demarcation between Spanish and Portuguese colonial territory in South America.

His son Frederick I, from 1701 the King in Prussia, was glad to sell colonial possessions to the Netherlands.

Portugal was the first country in Europe to achieve linguistic unity within its own frontiers (which have remained virtually unchanged since the thirteenth century), but the last European country to relinquish its colonial possessions.

Another competitor to the US was England though losing industrial importance, but still competing in world power ambitions through her colonial possessions weighing one fourth of the world.

Colonial possession alone gives the monopolies complete guarantee against all contingencies in the struggle with competitors, including the contingency that the latter will defend themselves by means of a law establishing a state monopoly.

If a fascist regime were to be established tomorrow on either side of the English Channel – and hardly anyone will dare to deny such a possibility – the Paris and London dictators would be just as little able to give up their colonial possessions as Mussolini and Hitler their colonial claims.

Although their colonial possessions in South and Central America held firm, the Iberian powers were unable to keep the English and French out of American trade. Attempts to crack down on this gave rise to increased piracy.

To present as precise a picture as possible of the territorial division of the world and of the changes which have occurred during the last decades in this respect, we will utilize the data furnished by Supan in the work already quoted on the colonial possessions of all the powers of the world.

The Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English competed for colonial possessions around the earth.

Since however soon it showed up that the commercial company was overtaxed with the use of the extensive colonial possession, it was it, which loosened the prohibitive system.

Alongside the colonial possessions of the Great Powers, we have placed the small colonies of the small states, which are, so to speak, the next objects of a possible and probable "redivision" of colonies.

The economic support offered by Washington to Europe dovetailed with U.S. plans to end the system of "imperial preferences" and open European colonial holdings to penetration by American capital.

From that point on the empire dedicated itself to strengthening its grip on its colonial possessions and perfecting the whole structure to prevent the intrusion of old or new competitors from other imperialist countries.

The economic support offered by Washington to Europe dovetailed with U.S. plans to end the system of “imperial preferences” and open European colonial holdings to penetration by American capital.

At the time of the handover, the International Communist League "joined in cheering as the rotted British Empire finally lost its last major colonial holding" but warned that the continuation of capitalism in Hong Kong "is a dagger aimed at the remaining gains of the 1949 Chinese Revolution" (WV No. 671, 11 July 1997).

At the time of the handover, the International Communist League “joined in cheering as the rotted British Empire finally lost its last major colonial holding” but warned that the continuation of capitalism in Hong Kong “is a dagger aimed at the remaining gains of the 1949 Chinese Revolution” (WV No. 671, 11 July 1997).

Trotskyists can only cheer as the rotted British Empire loses its last major colonial holding with the lowering of the bloody Union Jack and the raising of the five-starred red flag of the People's Republic on July 1.