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What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism an... (展开全部) 目录 ··· Preface to the Paperback Edition Preface to the First Edition ...
R. Seeleys late Victorian claim that "%$ INTRODUCTION empire was acquired in a fit of absence of mind. They risk making irrelevant that which was formative, if not central, to historically situated European cultural identities and, more dangerously, they work to naturalize as benign...
Ecological imperialism was about the displacement of indigenous ecologies in favor of biological "neo-Europes." But for all its promise, in other years neither Crosby nor subsequent environmental historians moved beyond the diffusionist and ecologically-reductionist conception of imperialism. The idea of...
The third stage—a period of the most extensive spread and increase in the power of the monopolies—was connected with the industrial upsurge of 1910–13. By 1914 there were about 150 syndicates and cartels, embracing virtually all the branches of big industry, including part of the largest on...
A kothi is someone who lives in the village and does women’s work.” Examining these identities allows Gevisser to get out from under western presuppositions about sexuality and gender, which he contends are ultimately “surface wrappers, like the rainbow flag itself, furled as it was around...
Imperialism was a major factor in European and world history for about five centuries and still influences world culture to this day. Many of the nations that exist in the world today, including the United States of America, were once European colonies....
26Nevertheless, we must run aground on some island.” The Shipwreck 27On the fourteenth night we were still being driven across the Adriatic Sea, when about midnight the sailors sensed they were approaching land. 28They took soundings and found that the water was a hundred and twenty feet ...
Ah, the Georgia colony was a place of opportunity and growth. People there took on various jobs such as farmers, traders, craftsmen, and even some worked in the silk industry. Each person played a vital role in building a community where everyone could thrive and support one another. It's...