Aid as Imperialism

by Teresa Hayter

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 ...TO THE MEMORY OF J. L. HUISH, BORN 1856, AT HACKNEY, LONDON, Accidentally killed upon this Island, 10th September, 1889. Tuesday, 6. I am exulting to do nothing. It pours with rain from the westward, very unusual kind of weather; I was standing out on the little verandah in front of my room this L893 J June morning, and there went through me or over me a wave of extraordinary and apparently baseless emotion. I literally staggered. And then the explanation came, and I knew I had found a frame of mind and body that belonged to Scotland, and particularly to the neighbourhood of Callander. Very odd these identities of sensation, and the world of connotations implied; highland huts, and peat smoke, and the brown, swirling rivers, and wet clothes, and whiskey, and the romance of the past, and that indescribable bite of the whole thing at a man's heart, which is--or rather lies at the bottom of--a story. I don't know if you are a Barbey d'Aurevilly-an. I am. I have a great delight in his Norman stories. Do you know the Chevalier des Touches and L'EnsorceUe? They are admirable, they reek of the soil and the past. But I was rather thinking just now of Le Rideau Cramoisi, and its adorable setting of the VOL. II.--10 1893 stopped coach, the dark street, the homeJune going in the inn yard, and the red blind illuminated. Without doubt, there was an identity of sensation; one of those conjunctions in life that had filled Barbey full to the brim, and permanently bent his memory. I wonder exceedingly if I have done anything at all good; and who can tell me? and why should I wish to know? In so little a while, I, and the English language, and the bones of my descendants, will have ceased to be a memory! And yet--and yet--one would like to leave an image for a few years upon...

Genres: Nonfiction, Economics

224 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 1971

About the author

Writer and activist. Deals mainly with anti-racist and issues around migration.

Reviews

[Jherane Patmore · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read excerpts of this for many of my foreign policy classes so I was pretty excited when I spotted it at a used book store. This book remains on the "required reading" for anyone interested in understanding foreign policy in LAC, however soooo much has changed in the way AID is given that this book needs an update.