colonial exploitation
description: refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
61 results
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 WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words
to project an aura of benign patronage; Washington, cognizant of domestic political sensitivities, tried to counter the perception that it was engaged in European-style colonial exploitation.6 As Neil Sheehan succinctly explains: The United States did not seek colonies as such. Having overt colonies was not acceptable to the American political
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
by Sven Beckert · 2 Dec 2014 · 1,000pp · 247,974 words
. The spread of cotton industrialization in the first half of the nineteenth century, to continental Europe and a few places beyond, showed that slavery and colonial exploitation were not essential to capitalism.74 Capitalism reinvented itself ongoingly, and the lessons and capabilities of one moment were subsumed in the next. The connections
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
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
by Thomas Sowell · 31 Aug 2015 · 877pp · 182,093 words
that is very different from saying that the general populations of the imperial nations prospered from the wealth extracted from the conquered peoples or that colonial exploitation explains economic gaps today between former conquered peoples and their former conquerors. The ancient Romans were already more advanced than the ancient Britons when the
Money Changes Everything: How Finance Made Civilization Possible
by William N. Goetzmann · 11 Apr 2016 · 695pp · 194,693 words
the basis for the transition to successful private corporate ownership. However, China’s Communist Revolution in 1949 reinterpreted this success story in stark terms as colonial exploitation by the capitalistic West. There is a germ of truth in their revisionist history. China’s financial modernization resulted from the weakening of the central
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in solving the disjunctions caused by unchecked financial globalization and bad savings habits. His legacy is a financial architecture designed to blunt the potential for colonial exploitation by disintermediating lenders and sovereign borrowers—replacing that relationship with a collective institutional financial organization. Did Bretton Woods save the world from a revival of
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by John Cassidy · 12 May 2025 · 774pp · 238,244 words
trade and the nineteenth-century land grabs, on the continent. Echoing the Latin dependency theorists, Rodney argued that the oppressive structures and extractive nature of colonial exploitation were directly responsible for the low levels of economic development throughout Africa. “All of the countries named as ‘underdeveloped’ in the world are exploited by
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher · 2 Jul 2007 · 341pp · 111,525 words
's interior, and within two decades the entire continent had effectively been carved up by the white man. The modern history of Africa - decades of colonial exploitation and post-independence chaos - was begun by a Telegraph reporter battling down the Congo River. Reading about this epoch-changing journey seeded an idea in
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
by Pankaj Mishra · 3 Sep 2012
War had changed ‘the map of the world’. ‘In the neighbourhood of my country,’ he said, ‘hundreds of millions of Asian people, after centuries of colonial exploitation, have now gained their independence and freedom.’ Speaking of countries that had ‘struggled for the right to enter the family of nations on terms of
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independence soon faded before the sheer magnitude of such nation-building tasks as sustained economic growth and territorial consolidation. Stumbling out of long decades of colonial exploitation into a world bitterly divided by the Cold War, the new states had to urgently find aid and capital for weak, often pre-industrial economic
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
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell · 14 Oct 2014 · 501pp · 134,867 words
The Taste of War: World War Two and the Battle for Food
by Lizzie Collingham · 1 Jan 2011 · 927pp · 236,812 words
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
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The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 words
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
by Richard D. Lewis · 1 Jan 1996
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
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
by George Magnus · 10 Sep 2018 · 371pp · 98,534 words
From Peoples into Nations
by John Connelly · 11 Nov 2019
The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
by Colin Shindler · 29 Jul 2015 · 439pp · 166,910 words
The City
by Tony Norfield · 352pp · 98,561 words
GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich · 10 Jun 2010 · 826pp · 231,966 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 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
The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R. Morris · 1 Jan 2012 · 456pp · 123,534 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
"They Take Our Jobs!": And 20 Other Myths About Immigration
by Aviva Chomsky · 23 Apr 2018 · 219pp · 62,816 words
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
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris · 1 Dec 1974 · 206pp · 67,030 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
Equality
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 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 and Fall of the British Nation: A Twentieth-Century History
by David Edgerton · 27 Jun 2018
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
The Insatiable Machine
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words
The Rough Guide to Morocco (Travel Guide eBook)
by Rough Guides · 23 Mar 2019 · 1,058pp · 302,829 words
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
by Suzanne Simard; · 30 Mar 2026 · 430pp · 111,698 words
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words
The Rough Guide to Bolivia: Travel Guide eBook
by Rough Guides · 31 Mar 2025 · 598pp · 166,116 words
Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
by Nicholas Best · 9 Aug 2013 · 267pp · 81,108 words
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who ...
by David Barrie · 12 May 2014 · 366pp · 100,602 words
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
by Hans Kundnani · 16 Aug 2023 · 198pp · 54,815 words
The Rough Guide to Morocco
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes · 24 Apr 2013 · 432pp · 128,944 words
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr · 23 Sep 2019 · 1,123pp · 328,357 words
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton · 15 Mar 2013 · 374pp · 114,660 words
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Martin Dunford · 2 Jan 2009
Confessions of a Microfinance Heretic
by Hugh Sinclair · 4 Oct 2012 · 346pp · 101,763 words
Wireless
by Charles Stross · 7 Jul 2009
Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong About the Future of Transportation
by Paris Marx · 4 Jul 2022 · 295pp · 81,861 words
A Half-Built Garden
by Ruthanna Emrys · 25 Jul 2022 · 431pp · 127,720 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