The _Oxford English Dictionary_ (_OED_) defines the word _colonialism_ as a practice, as a manner of doing things (_OED Online_, “colonialism,” n.d.). The word as such emerged in the mid to late nineteenth century in England. However, foreshortened versions such as _colony_ and _colonial_ have been extant and in use for far longer. “Colony” ostensibly comes from the Latin _col_ō_nia_, _transported_ into Old English in the fourteenth century via the French _colonie_, or “tiller,” “farmer,” “cultivator,” “planter,” “settler in a new place.” But it has resonances in other European languages such as Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, and Dutch, each constituency shipping in its own, sometimes mottled, history of colonialism. Etymologies often trace the spoor of ideologies. So also with these connotations. They conveyed what was implicated by colonialism, their seeming innocuousness papering over the routes through which settler colonialism found its technologies of occupation, as we will go on to see. _Colonial_, as the newer English word, has a shorter history, coming supposedly into common use in 1776 in the _Parliamentary Register_ in the United Kingdom, the exact moment of the formation of the United States. However, it is perhaps no accident, as scholars are at pains to submit, that Rome...