colonial exploitation
description: refers to the historical practice where colonial powers extracted natural resources and exploited indigenous populations for economic gain.
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The Insatiable Machine
by Trevor Jackson · 15 Mar 2026 · 270pp · 104,133 words
, Vladimir Lenin drew heavily on Hobson in his Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism, to claim that financial capitalism specifically drew on the profits of colonial exploitation, having reached the end stage of concentration and monopoly in capitalist competition. A deep socialist tradition maintained that workers had no homeland, and that national
When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World
by Suzanne Simard; · 30 Mar 2026 · 430pp · 111,698 words
philosophy of care and stewardship of the land. It is my hope and intention that my work shines a light on the truth of the colonial exploitation of the forests of Canada, and hence of Indigenous land and people, and that seeing, believing, and acting on this truth leads toward respecting, tending
A Line in the Tar Sands: Struggles for Environmental Justice
by Tony Weis and Joshua Kahn Russell · 14 Oct 2014 · 501pp · 134,867 words
(Bilateral Investment Treaties) throughout the world as a relatively new phenomenon,” in fact this mania “has deep roots,” which “lie in a long history of colonial exploitation, capitalism and imperialism. The classic colonial state was structured for the exploitation and extraction of resources.”11 An Alternative Approach Considering the limitations of previous
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
a reasonable conclusion, but the condition of many of the world's poor countries results from a far more complex combination of circumstances including subjugation, colonialism, exploitation, and suppression that put them at a disadvantage that will long endure and for which climate may not be the significant causative factor Mr. Sachs
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
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
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
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
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
despite stagnant real incomes. Global economic growth improved the wealth of emerging nations, increasing the living standards of their citizens. This avoided awkward issues of colonial exploitation and reparations. Growth was perceived to benefit poorer members of society by improving the economy as a whole. Henry Wallich, a former governor of the
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
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
Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination
by Adom Getachew · 5 Feb 2019
GCHQ
by Richard Aldrich · 10 Jun 2010 · 826pp · 231,966 words
The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World
by Niall Ferguson · 13 Nov 2007 · 471pp · 124,585 words
Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India
by Shashi Tharoor · 1 Feb 2018 · 370pp · 111,129 words
The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America
by Mehrsa Baradaran · 7 May 2024 · 470pp · 158,007 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
Life Inc.: How the World Became a Corporation and How to Take It Back
by Douglas Rushkoff · 1 Jun 2009 · 422pp · 131,666 words
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
Capitalism and Its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI
by John Cassidy · 12 May 2025 · 774pp · 238,244 words
Blood River: A Journey to Africa's Broken Heart
by Tim Butcher · 2 Jul 2007 · 341pp · 111,525 words
The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire
by Wikileaks · 24 Aug 2015 · 708pp · 176,708 words
From the Ruins of Empire: The Intellectuals Who Remade Asia
by Pankaj Mishra · 3 Sep 2012
The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
by Atossa Araxia Abrahamian · 7 Oct 2024 · 336pp · 104,899 words
Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World
by Steven Johnson · 15 Nov 2016 · 322pp · 88,197 words
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
by Daniel Yergin · 23 Dec 2008 · 1,445pp · 469,426 words
Sextant: A Young Man's Daring Sea Voyage and the Men Who ...
by David Barrie · 12 May 2014 · 366pp · 100,602 words
Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization
by Branko Milanovic · 10 Apr 2016 · 312pp · 91,835 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
Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World
by Malcolm Harris · 14 Feb 2023 · 864pp · 272,918 words
American Marxism
by Mark R. Levin · 12 Jul 2021 · 314pp · 88,524 words
When Cultures Collide: Leading Across Cultures
by Richard D. Lewis · 1 Jan 1996
Adam Smith: Father of Economics
by Jesse Norman · 30 Jun 2018
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
Equality
by Darrin M. McMahon · 14 Nov 2023 · 534pp · 166,876 words
The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
by Colin Shindler · 29 Jul 2015 · 439pp · 166,910 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 Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution
by Charles R. Morris · 1 Jan 2012 · 456pp · 123,534 words
Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture
by Marvin Harris · 1 Dec 1974 · 206pp · 67,030 words
Red Flags: Why Xi's China Is in Jeopardy
by George Magnus · 10 Sep 2018 · 371pp · 98,534 words
The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
by Matt Ridley · 17 May 2010 · 462pp · 150,129 words
The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
by Christopher Lasch · 16 Sep 1991 · 669pp · 226,737 words
The Rough Guide to New York City
by Martin Dunford · 2 Jan 2009
Eurowhiteness: Culture, Empire and Race in the European Project
by Hans Kundnani · 16 Aug 2023 · 198pp · 54,815 words
The Rough Guide to Morocco
by Rough Guides
The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality
by Angus Deaton · 15 Mar 2013 · 374pp · 114,660 words
The Retreat of Western Liberalism
by Edward Luce · 20 Apr 2017 · 223pp · 58,732 words
Nomad Century: How Climate Migration Will Reshape Our World
by Gaia Vince · 22 Aug 2022 · 302pp · 92,206 words
Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
by Nicholas Best · 9 Aug 2013 · 267pp · 81,108 words
Post Wall: Rebuilding the World After 1989
by Kristina Spohr · 23 Sep 2019 · 1,123pp · 328,357 words
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
by Richard Holmes · 24 Apr 2013 · 432pp · 128,944 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