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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme
#22B: Imperialism |
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Imperial
Island--A History of Empire in Modern Britain by Charlotte Lydia Riley
(book review by Pratinav Anil in The Guardian August 23 2023) |
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A
million lives later, I cannot forgive what American terrorism did to my
country, Iraq by Sinan Antoon (from The Guardian Mar 19 2023)
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Colonialism--A
Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar (book
review from The Economist March 4 2023) |
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On
Savage shores by Caroline Dodds Pennock (book review from The
Guardian Jan 19 2023) |
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Why a Chinese ship's arrival in Sri Lanka has caused alarm in India and the West by Lauren Frayer (from
NPR, August 19 2022) |
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"Kyiv
accuses Moscow of 'imperialism' after general's southern Ukraine comment"
by Pavel Polityuk (from Reuters April 22 2022) |
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A
continuation of colonialism’: indigenous activists say their voices are
missing at COP 26
By Nina Lakhani (article from The Guardian Nov 3 2021) |
| "The
Belt and Road Initiative – the pandemic is hurting this Chinese
effort" (report from The Economist June 6 2020) |
| “The
Train and the Swamp” (article about China’s massive global
development effort from Sierra magazine
Jan / Feb 2020) |
| “The
New Scramble for Africa” (article
in The Economist March 9 2019)
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| Are
You a Nationalist or an Imperialist? by Park MacDougald (includes
review of 2018 book The Virtues of Nationalism by Y. Hazont, post
on New York Magazine Sep 21 2018) |
| Land
Reform in South Africa (report from The Economist August 25
2018)
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| "Geopolitics: In Defense of Empire" by Robert D. Kaplan
(article from The Atlantic April 2014) |
| Special
Report: Outsourcing and Offshoring--Here, There, and Everywhere (from The
Economist Jan 19 2013) |
| Unfinished Empire:
The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin (review of this book in
The Economist Sept 2012) |
| Ghosts
of Empire by Kwasi Kwarteng (review in The Guardian of this
2011 book re: British imperialism) |
| "The
East India Company" (historical perspective from Dec 17 2011 The
Economist) |
| "The
New African Land Grab" by Joan Baxter (June 30 2011 article posted on Al
Jazeera) |
| "The Politically Incorrect Guide to Ending Poverty" by S. Mallaby
(article from The Atlantic July 2010) |
| In
Defense of Global Capitalism, by Johan Nordberg (read excerpts of this
2003 book at Google Books) |
| Economic
Globalization in Asia, by Manas Chatterji, Partha (read excerpts of
2005 book at Google Books) |
| In
Praise of Cultural Imperialism, by David Rothkopf (1997
article in Foreign Policy by former US Commerce Dept official) |
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Cultural
Imperialism and American Protestant Missionaries in 19th Century China
by Paul W. Harris, (30 page paper) |
| Reconsidering
Cultural Imperialism Theory, by Livingston White |
| Multinational
Corporations: Myths and Facts, by Gary Quinlivan (in defense of
multinational global activities) |
| Multinational
Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction (from Global Envision) |
| Foreign
Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation |
| Foreign
Direct Investment by Transnational Corporations (from Development
Gateway website) |
| Do
Multinational Corporations Hurt Poor Countries?, by J. Bhagwati
(basically no, he concludes) |
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The
Looting Machine: warlords, tycoons, smugglers and the systematic theft of
Africa's wealth
by Tom Burgis (book
review in The Guardian March 2 2015) |
| "Xi
Jinping of China Tries to Reassure Africans" by Chris Buckley
(Mar 25 2013 article from The NY Times) |
| The
Next Empire, by Howard W. French (article re: China in Africa from The
Atlantic, May, 2010) |
| Trade:
Key to Prosperity |
| Free
Trade and Globalization |
| Development
and Economic Freedom: Counter-Capitalism Inside the Anti-globalization
Movement |
| Anti-Globalism
= Anti-Americanism (from American Enterprise Online) |
| In
Defense of Globalization, by J. Bhagwati |
| The
Free Trade Future of the African Growth and Opportunity Act |
| Imperialism
in Africa Readings |
| Justifying
the Role of Imperialism in Africa (book & book review) |
| International Land Coalition:
Commercial Pressures on Land |
| Third
World Development: Foreign Aid or Free Trade, by John Majewski |
| Third
World Economic Development, by Clive Crook |
| The
White Man's Burden (from online encyclopedia re:1899
poem by Rudyard Kipling justifying British imperialism as noble) |
| The
Neo-Conservative Agenda: Humanism vs. Imperialism by R. Tremblay |
| "The
Imperialism of Good Intentions" by Richard Gwyn (July 12, 2008
article from Toronto Star) |
| Cultural
Imperialism in the Late 20th Century, by James Petras (from Global
Policy Forum) |
| Imperial
Ambitions, by Noam Chomsky (leftist perspective on US foreign policy,
read at Google Books) |
| The
Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (excerpts of 2006
novel about lingering effects of colonialism at Google Books) |
| Center
for Global Justice |
| Multinational
Corporations are Incompatible with Sustainable Development, by Stephen
Viederman |
| Fight
Imperialism, Stand Together (activist organization) |
| Against
Empire by Michael Parenti (website for 1995 book, includes link
to Imperialism 101 chapter) |
| American
Empire Project (publishes books such as Imperial Ambitions, by
Noam Chomsky) |
| quotes
related to imperialism |