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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... population ; and if a population were exterminated , it would cease to be a source of surplus value . The Nazis did have plans for further exterminations or reductions of populations , apart from the Jews ; they expected to depopulate ...
... populations of the cities and towns of eastern Iran were literally annihilated and the buildings reduced to rubble ; the Mongols , as nomads , hated walled cities " with a kind of frenzy of destruction . " 3 The townsfolk would be ...
... population declined ; a slow , continuous decline , punctuated three or four times during the century by catastrophic plunges due to major epidemics which left the population permanently enfeebled and depleted . The story was much the ...
... population , sometimes sharply so , continued until the middle of the next century.15 The population of central Mexico , estimated at having been approximately eleven million in 1519 , declined by 1597 to less than a fourth of that ...
... population . " The new Imperialism differs in no vital point from this old example . . . [ N ] ature is not mocked : the laws which , operative throughout nature , doom the parasite to atrophy , decay , and final extinction , are not ...
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 |