many felt that the step had been premature, that neither would Britain allow such a caesura, nor could India survive on its own
oooh really cool use of the term
[...] Leopold II set up the operations to extract the maximum profit, and over the course of the decades the Free State altered its policies several times to ensure its basic objective. The many different policies were united by a premise: as a 1 923 manual put it, " The laziness of the colored ra…
Neither armed struggle nor unctuous petitions dampened the confidence of colonialism.
But the First and Second worlds only accounted for a third of the planet' s people. What of the two-thirds who remained outside the East West circles; what of those 2 billion people?
The First World saw them as poor, overly fecund, profligate, and worthless. Images of poverty in the formerly co…
what the Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah called "neocolonialism," or domination by means other than territorial conquest.
