personal oath. They were calling on a much deeper personal commitment—to abide by no matter what came, unto death. Gandhi then returned toIndiain 1915 and led a movement that eventually brought down the British Raj, which was in turn a central event that led to the downfall ofimperialism,...
Critics have doubted Davidson's ability to account for the meanings of sentences that, intuitively, are neither true nor false, such as interrogatives and imperatives, and, perhaps more seriously, of such sentences as direct and indirect quotations and attributions of intentional attitudes. (Tarski ...
Lenin (LENIN, 1916) who added the ideological charge to the term imperialism by using Wakefield’s link of surplus capital and imperial expansion to assert that the final stage of capitalism, i.e., imperialism, is characterized by increasing monopolization, declining domestic markets and the ...
The operation was not easy for the Empire given that the monetary and credit systems were held up by the Imperial Ottoman Bank which was managed by two Committees in London and Paris, ...
indirect rule (what he called ‘decentralized despotism’) in which African custom granted enormous powers to local systems of traditional (and therefore cultural) authority, and developing instead a sort of civic nationalism in which cultural politics did not play a key role. Most African states ...
Exploitation stands at the heart of most theories of imperialism (Lenin, 1916; Marx, 1992), whether understood by Fanon as the coercive extraction of surplus through colonial states, through Arrighi and Pearce's notion of unequal exchange, or through the imperial operation of transnational ...
democracy as the embodiment of the people’s fundamental rights and sovereign power means that other people are masters of the country and enjoy all rights to manage national, social, economic, and cultural affairs through direct or indirect democratic forms and by means of election, decision-makin...
Tuastad's (1997) essay on the political role of football for Palestinians in Jordan, Klein's (1991) study of the oscillating resistance to American cultural imperialism and dependence upon Major League Baseball (MLB) in the Dominican Republic, Bolin's (1997) account of competitive women body...
Natural capital is of direct use in consumption (fisheries); of indirect use, as inputs in production (timber); or of use in both (fresh water). The value of a resource is often derived from its usefulness (as a source of food, or as an essential actor in ecosystems—e.g., a keys...
The sociologist Martin Murray argues that capitalist exploitative measures included the concession of indigenous land to colonial settlers for the development of major cash crops; the introduction of direct and indirect taxes, and the conversion of tax payments from kind to cash to facilitate capitalist...