Colonialism in the Words of Its Contemporaries

The myth of modernization and development

“…As part of the ideological justification for colonialism, dominated societies were labeled "backward," "traditional," or "static," as an internally generated product of the societies themselves. Change, therefore, had to be imposed from outside by the progressive, superior colonial rulers (see Berkhofer, Jr. 1978;Harrison 1984, Mansfield 1985Rhodes et al 1982).…”