... across the broad expanse of waters, military, commercial, or political supremacy for their fatherland- (page 1). This definition is important because it reflects the ideology present at the time that Doyle's book was written. Since then times have changed, however, the "savage" is still exotic, "strange" and alluring along with the escapism offered by the sci-fi drama and the prevalent Western ... superiority depicted in the 1999 film. The word colonialism, has however, lately been defined by the Oxford English dictionary as "alleged policy of exploitation of backward or weak peoples by ...

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