In the book Rage, Gender & Punishment from colonialism to the war on terror by Mary Bosworth and Jeanne Flavin describe from the first chapter the history of colonialism in the world. Harry Magdoff described in the first chapter the different waves of colonialism from first Europeans then involving the United States. The first wave was European colonization and had three phases from mercantilism, land, and resources, to the second wave of slavery and commodities, and the third was independence from the colonizers (15), The first wave of colonialism created the United States that become involved in the second wave. The second wave now constituted Africa and Asia (including the middle east) and the United States played a role (in the Philippines)
