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"The debate on the new imperialism is essentially the result of conflicts in the ordering of causes. To defend the importance of a new factor is therefore to run head-on into ,other interpretations."
Not sure if this can be entirely avoided. For e.g., in the next page when he lays out the three possible scenarios involving the culmination of motives and means, he ends up setting up a loose ordering of causes himself.
— May 24, 2020 01:22AM
Not sure if this can be entirely avoided. For e.g., in the next page when he lays out the three possible scenarios involving the culmination of motives and means, he ends up setting up a loose ordering of causes himself.
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Urna
is on page 26 of 221
"The British community of Calcutta, which felt isolated from its homeland-a round trip took a year or more-saw in steam a means of accelerating communications. In 1825 it offered a prize to the first steamer to make the trip in seventy days or less. In response, a group of steam enthusiasts in London built the Enterprize, a large ship with a weak and fuel-hungry engine."
— May 24, 2020 01:57AM
Urna
is on page 24 of 221
"The Opium War was the first event whose outcome was determined by specially built gunboats. Not by accident did gunboats appear in China at the right moment. They were the end product of a complex process of creation resulting from the confluence, in the mid-1830s, of two historical forces ..."
— May 24, 2020 01:52AM
Urna
is on page 10 of 221
"The real triumph of European civilization has been that of vaccines and napalm, of ships and aircraft, of electricity and radio, of plastics and printing presses; in short, it has been a triumph of technology,
not ideology."
Is technology completely separable from ideology, though?
— May 23, 2020 11:13PM
not ideology."
Is technology completely separable from ideology, though?
