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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... Western society after World War II be attributed to the reluctance of the United States to take up the world's leadership in a straightforwardly progressive imperialist spirit ? Has its own self - doubt at critical periods allowed 1 ...
... leadership , will experience an imperialist calling . There will be the merchant's pursuit of profit , the miner's quest for ores , the soldier's taste for glory , but there will also be the schoolmaster's mission to educate , the ...
... leadership , and good works . Thus , when at the close of the Spanish - American War the United States Senate debated as to whether the Philippine Islands should be annexed , anti - annexationists did not charge the imperialists with a ...
... leaders who spoke or wrote upon the subject at all , thought that the sending of the expeditionary force to Europe in 1917- 1918 had been a great mistake . They recommended concentration on hemispheric defense , and some advocated ...
... leader , was utterly bourgeois in his philosophy . A lawyer and a lawyer's son , a loyal pupil of liberal Comtist ... leadership of the scientist and industrialist . Here was no atavistic Schum- peterian reverting to barbarian beginnings ...
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 |