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Richard T. Schaefer, in International Encyclopedia of the Social amp; Behavioral Sciences (Second Edition), 2015. Colonialism. Colonialism has been the most frequent way for one group of people to dominate another. Colonialism is the maintenance of political, social, economic, and cultural domination over people by a foreign power for an extended period (W. Bell, 1991).