Like Racism, there's a dichotomy of terms. Sometimes it's used for the general term of conquest and settlement (ie, Romans and Vikings and Bantu and Mongols and Venetian Trade Colonies in the Crimea are all "Settler Colonial").
Sometimes it's used for the complex, initially Anglo-Hispanic economic drivers and sustainers of large scale settlement and capitalist accumulation with limited cultural diffusion that developed around 1450.
Like Racism, there's a dichotomy of terms. Sometimes it's used for the general term of conquest and settlement (ie, Romans and Vikings and Bantu and Mongols and Venetian Trade Colonies in the Crimea are all "Settler Colonial").
Sometimes it's used for the complex, initially Anglo-Hispanic economic drivers and sustainers of large scale settlement and capitalist accumulation with limited cultural diffusion that developed around 1450.