Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist MindIn this major work, Lewis S. Feuer examines critical distinctions between progressive and regressive imperialism. He explores causes of anti-imperial ideologies, noting that unlike the spoliation that took place under regressive tartar, Spanish and Nazi colonizations, civilization flourished during the progressive imperialism of Hellenic, Macedonian, Roman, and modern British eras of empire-building. Feuer holds that it is erroneous to blame the relative backwardness of colonial peoples on the imperialism of Western democratic nations. In case after case, the character of colonial rulers determined economic development and democratic reform alike. Pursuing the theme of progress versus regression, Feuer compares the imperialism of the United States with that of the Soviet Union â to the detriment of the latter in nearly every instance. His effort constitutes nothing short of a fundamentally new perspective on the lessons of modern history and the mistakes of modern analysts of international affairs. Feuer opens as well a new chapter in political psychology with his study of such anti-imperialist intellectuals as Hobson, Morel, and Leonard Woolf; his portrait of Emin Pasha, the heroic Jewish governor of Equatorial Sudan, suggests a living model for Conrad's Lord Jim. |
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... later set down — to found a great republic of all the races , animated by Hellenic culture.1 As W. W. Tarn has written : " Aristotle's State had still cared nothing for humanity outside its own borders . . . Alexander changed all that ...
... later they occur in the history of a people and of a culture . " 17 And what then of a possible socialist imperialism ? Here Schumpeter responded categorically : " The type of industrial worker created by capitalism is always vigorously ...
... later in 1697 , as Commissioner of the Board of Trade , Locke was drawing plans to develop Virginia , the " poorest , miserablest and worst country in America . " To advance the spirit of 20 IMPERIALISM AND THE ANTI - IMPERIALIST MIND.
... his former teacher Aristotle with botanical and zoological specimens . More than two thousand years later , Napoleon's 1798 Egyptian expedition conveyed in its ships a company of France's most UNDERSTANDING PROGRESSIVE IMPERIALISM 21.
... later , how- ever , the citizenry of the bourgeois republic were prepared to consider that in view of the fact that half the globe was in a " barbarous " stage it behooved the " persevering action of civilized peoples " to elevate them ...
Contents
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Consumers Desires | 40 |
F The Altruistic Ingredient in Progressive Imperialism | 50 |
The Jews Under the Varieties of Imperialism | 57 |
F As Pariahs During the Decline of British Imperialism | 99 |
The End of Progressive Imperialism | 168 |
Notes | 216 |
Name Index | 259 |