Status Updates From After Tamerlane: The Rise a...

“Reconciling the promise of a Jewish ‘national home’ with the rights of the Arabs who were already there had been hard enough in the 1920s. The flood of refugees from Nazi oppression in the 1930s made it all but impossible. London’s prewar plan was to appease the anger of the Palestine Arabs at the growing Jewish migration by fixing a limit to ensure a permanent Arab majority. With its future settled as an

“[Qing dynasty] officials, who struggled to keep order, collect the land revenue, maintain the waterways, and manage the grain reserves, faced increasing resistance from a discontented population. Their authority and prestige had already been undermined by the ‘privatizations’ in the era of commercial expansion as licensed merchants took more control over tax collecting, water conservancy, and the grain tribute

“Thus India provided its European invader with the resources that could be turned to the task of conquest. Astonishingly early…the Company created its own ‘security zone’ and made itself an Indian power, competing in Indian terms with Indian rivals. […] The effect was to shift the balance of cost and risk away from Britain, the ultimate beneficiary of Indian empire, and toward the hybrid ‘Anglo-Indian’

“The ‘Cotton Kingdom’ [of the United States] and its slavery system, Lancashire industry, and British rule in India were thus bound together by an extraordinary symbiosis. In this respect, as in so many others, however ‘anti-colonial’ their political views, Americans were the indispensable sleeping partners of Europe’s expansion into Afro-Asia.”

Ok so far. Found it slightly irksome how the author organize his ideas here and there…

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