proto-imperialism

alternative protoimperialism

1. no pluralhistoryInvasive and exploitative practices that anticipated capitalist imperialism.First known use 20th c.

   But just as classical Pan-Africanism—that of the twentieth century—can be understood as a reaction to classical European imperialism, so the reaction of early Africans or American Negroes to what could be called proto-imperialism can be described as ‘proto-Pan-Africanism.’¹

   1967, Journal of the Historical Society of Nigeria, volume III, number 4, Historical Society of Nigeria, page 721