colonial exploitation

Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination

by Adom Getachew  · 5 Feb 2019

idealism and universalism with which Wilsonism had become associated only masked what was a [ 52 ] Ch a pter T wo preservation of racial hierarchy and colonial exploitation.90 The League of Nations was a league of “imperialist counter-­revolution” that could be defeated only through the combination of anti-­imperialist and proletarian

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the metropole and consumed its manufactured goods. This economic exploitation had required political subordination, and as a result independence and autonomy were central to overcoming colonial exploitation. However, while Nkrumah urged his fellow nationalists to “seek ye first the political kingdom,” he remained concerned that political independence alone would not transform economic

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demands of redistribution that extended far beyond aid and charity. This was not pitched as a backward-­looking argument for historical redress and remedy of colonial exploitation of the kind that contemporary reparations projects have articulated. Instead, it was a demand based on the claim that the structural conditions of the global

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, 85; African membership in, 51; and assistance to Ethiopia, 66; British Empire as model for, 49; and causes of war, 85; and civilization, 57; and colonial exploitation, 52; Convention on Slavery (1926), 81; and decolonization, 41; disillusionment with, 67; and division of political and economic power, 62; and Du Bois, 67, 70

The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America

by Mehrsa Baradaran  · 7 May 2024  · 470pp  · 158,007 words

, war among the European empires had begun just as soon as the first colonial spoils were taken back to the homeland. Hundreds of years of colonial exploitation were mirrored by hundreds of years of war among the great powers over those resources. Europe needed those imports to maintain its standard of living

The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian  · 7 Oct 2024  · 336pp  · 104,899 words

conversation on the podcast Freakonomics. “As anybody, I guess, besides me will notice, this raises all kinds of alarms about colonialism and the history of colonial exploitation in Africa,” he told the host. “It had this guilt by association that meant that everybody was a little bit horrified by the suggestion. But

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“growing sector” in which they had a very keen interest: satellite technology. It was not that these countries were technologically advanced—for many, centuries of colonial exploitation had thwarted their ambitions. They were, however, fortuitously positioned to take advantage of other countries’ advances by virtue of their location along the Earth’s

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of outright power, then at least from one of choice. In the Pacific, the establishment of the camps follows a broad historical pattern defined by colonial exploitation. “It’s states looking for opportunity…with little strong and sustainable economic opportunity,” Damon Salesa, the vice chancellor of Auckland University of Technology, told me

The City

by Tony Norfield  · 352pp  · 98,561 words

centre status 50 banks 4, 116, 134, 191–7, 192, 194, 196, 206–10, 214 borrowing 201–2, 204–5 China policy 225–6, 227 colonial exploitation 30–3 colonialism 30–1 credit rating 204–5 current account balance 188–90, 189, 190 current account deficit 200, 202, 211, 217 current account

Adam Smith: Father of Economics

by Jesse Norman  · 30 Jun 2018

—and even that was designed to serve political as much as economic ends. As we have seen, Adam Smith deplored the tendencies to monopoly and colonial exploitation, the anti-competitive effects of trade restrictions, privileges and tariffs, and the distortion of domestic politics created by the great mercantile lobbies—the national and

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a committed believer in the wisdom of freeing up trade as between willing partners, but he was also acutely aware of the evil effects of colonial exploitation, and was hostile to the use of coercion to open up trade. What about Hamilton’s temporary protections for infant industries? The argument was taken

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United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), 258 civilizing process, commerce as, 292–295 Clarkson, Thomas, 235 Clay, Henry, 276 Cochrane, Andrew, 53 collective mind, 174 colonial exploitation, 278 colonial monopolies, 138 colonization, 114 Commentaries on the Laws of England (Blackstone), 100 commerce capital accumulation and, 181–182 as civilizing process, 292–295

Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Jun 2009  · 422pp  · 131,666 words

humans as competitors to be beaten or resources to be exploited. Indeed, the now-stalled gentrification of Brooklyn had a good deal in common with colonial exploitation. Of course, the whole thing was done with more circumspection, with more tact. The borough’s gentrifiers steered away from explicitly racist justifications for their

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

by Shashi Tharoor  · 1 Feb 2018  · 370pp  · 111,129 words

changed somewhat thanks to the advent of the mercantile classes, but the Pitt Diamond represented a dramatically alternative model, based on something far more adventurous—colonial exploits, if not exploitation. The owners of these diamonds escaped the confinement of traditional sources of wealth for something that could be acquired by colonial enterprise

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million lbs. (14 million kilos) of Chinese tea a year; today India alone produces nearly 300 million kilos. But even tea was not exempt from colonial exploitation: the workers laboured in appalling conditions for a pittance, while all the profits, of course, went to British firms. Early in the twentieth century, the

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Indian state and its scientific, technological, industrial and civic institutions could not take place, as it did between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries in Europe. Colonial exploitation happened instead. The world was aware of this disgraceful imperial record for decades before the British ended their rule after an ignominious half-century in

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major relief to Britain as it seeks to fend off a blizzard of demands to undo the manifold injustices of two centuries or more of colonial exploitation of far-flung lands. From the Parthenon Marbles to the Kohinoor, the British expropriation of the jewels of other countries’ heritage is a particular point

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in India’, New Statesman, 16 August 2012. India was… an ‘extractive colony’: Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail, New York: Crown Business, 2012. Colonial exploitation happened instead: See Cotterrill, ‘Ferguson’s Ignorant Defence’ and ‘The Incomplete State: Charles Tilly and the Defence of Aid to India’, www.thoughcowardsflinch.com/2012

From Peoples into Nations

by John Connelly  · 11 Nov 2019

disparities in wealth in the new states. Prague contributed mightily to Slovak educational infrastructure and other state institutions in Slovakia, yet Slovaks complained that foreign “colonial” exploitation kept them poor, thus demonstrating how subjective perceptions can overrule hard political and economic facts. Croats and Slovenes complained that their wealth was being diverted

Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World

by Malcolm Harris  · 14 Feb 2023  · 864pp  · 272,918 words

And much like people’s liberation armies throughout the decolonizing world, COFO organizers found themselves doing development work to counter the forced underdevelopment endemic to colonial exploitation, which meant setting up “freedom schools” to teach literacy in particular.14 Among the outside organizers, the willing ones learned a lot from the rural

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one nation among many that came together in their current forms at the end of the nineteenth century and have teetered on unstable foundations of colonial exploitation ever since. These countries faced a set of analogous pressures in the years following the Second World War, and despite its unique position America wasn

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line that connects California to the world anticolonial struggle; they are embedded in the same history, as I contended in the first section. It was colonial exploitation that linked these conflicts in the first place, not the spread of doctrines or encounters between individuals. We know this is the case because when

Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, From the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First

by Frank Trentmann  · 1 Dec 2015  · 1,213pp  · 376,284 words

nationalists and popular imperialists. However limited the delivery on these promises, people acquired a taste for more. Even regimes marked by low growth, deprivation and colonial exploitation played their part in boosting consumption. Modern societies had entered the twentieth century with an ideal of separate spheres. Culture was to be kept apart

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore  · 16 Oct 2017  · 335pp  · 89,924 words

Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible

by William N. Goetzmann  · 11 Apr 2016  · 695pp  · 194,693 words

From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia

by Pankaj Mishra  · 3 Sep 2012

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power

by Daniel Yergin  · 23 Dec 2008  · 1,445pp  · 469,426 words

Why geography matters: three challenges facing America : climate change, the rise of China, and global terrorism

by Harm J. De Blij  · 15 Nov 2007  · 481pp  · 121,300 words

Wealth, Poverty and Politics

by Thomas Sowell  · 31 Aug 2015  · 877pp  · 182,093 words

Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy

by George Magnus  · 10 Sep 2018  · 371pp  · 98,534 words

Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI

by John Cassidy  · 12 May 2025  · 774pp  · 238,244 words

The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good

by William Easterly  · 1 Mar 2006

GCHQ

by Richard Aldrich  · 10 Jun 2010  · 826pp  · 231,966 words

A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice

by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell  · 14 Oct 2014  · 501pp  · 134,867 words

When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures

by Richard D. Lewis  · 1 Jan 1996

The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food

by Lizzie Collingham  · 1 Jan 2011  · 927pp  · 236,812 words

"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration

by Aviva Chomsky  · 23 Apr 2018  · 219pp  · 62,816 words

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

by Niall Ferguson  · 13 Nov 2007  · 471pp  · 124,585 words

Empire of Cotton: A Global History

by Sven Beckert  · 2 Dec 2014  · 1,000pp  · 247,974 words

Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus: How Growth Became the Enemy of Prosperity

by Douglas Rushkoff  · 1 Mar 2016  · 366pp  · 94,209 words

The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron

by Colin Shindler  · 29 Jul 2015  · 439pp  · 166,910 words

Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart

by Tim Butcher  · 2 Jul 2007  · 341pp  · 111,525 words

The Retreat of Western Liberalism

by Edward Luce  · 20 Apr 2017  · 223pp  · 58,732 words

Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture

by Marvin Harris  · 1 Dec 1974  · 206pp  · 67,030 words

Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization

by Branko Milanovic  · 10 Apr 2016  · 312pp  · 91,835 words

Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who ...

by David Barrie  · 12 May 2014  · 366pp  · 100,602 words

Equality

by Darrin M. McMahon  · 14 Nov 2023  · 534pp  · 166,876 words

The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution

by Charles R. Morris  · 1 Jan 2012  · 456pp  · 123,534 words

The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

by Christopher Lasch  · 16 Sep 1991  · 669pp  · 226,737 words

American Marxism

by Mark R. Levin  · 12 Jul 2021  · 314pp  · 88,524 words

The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

by Matt Ridley  · 17 May 2010  · 462pp  · 150,129 words

Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World

by Steven Johnson  · 15 Nov 2016  · 322pp  · 88,197 words

The Rise and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History

by David Edgerton  · 27 Jun 2018

The Rough Guide to Morocco (Travel Guide eBook)

by Rough Guides  · 23 Mar 2019  · 1,058pp  · 302,829 words

The Age of Stagnation: Why Perpetual Growth Is Unattainable and the Global Economy Is in Peril

by Satyajit Das  · 9 Feb 2016  · 327pp  · 90,542 words

Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World

by Gaia Vince  · 22 Aug 2022  · 302pp  · 92,206 words

Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project

by Hans Kundnani  · 16 Aug 2023  · 198pp  · 54,815 words

The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality

by Angus Deaton  · 15 Mar 2013  · 374pp  · 114,660 words

Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya

by Nicholas Best  · 9 Aug 2013  · 267pp  · 81,108 words

The Rough Guide to Morocco

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The Rough Guide to New York City

by Martin Dunford  · 2 Jan 2009

Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air

by Richard Holmes  · 24 Apr 2013  · 432pp  · 128,944 words

Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989

by Kristina Spohr  · 23 Sep 2019  · 1,123pp  · 328,357 words

Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic

by Hugh Sinclair  · 4 Oct 2012  · 346pp  · 101,763 words

Wireless

by Charles Stross  · 7 Jul 2009

A Half-Built Garden

by Ruthanna Emrys  · 25 Jul 2022  · 431pp  · 127,720 words

Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation

by Paris Marx  · 4 Jul 2022  · 295pp  · 81,861 words

Equal Is Unfair: America's Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality

by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook  · 28 Mar 2016  · 345pp  · 92,849 words

The Sum of All Fears

by Tom Clancy  · 2 Jan 1989

The Tyranny of Nostalgia: Half a Century of British Economic Decline

by Russell Jones  · 15 Jan 2023  · 463pp  · 140,499 words