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I seek to grasp the genealogy of China's Belt and Road (BRI) in relation both to the imperial Chinese world order and … the historical sequence of forms of global domination, i.e., modern imperialism, the ‘imperialism of nation-states' during …
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This paper is concerned with the economic history of immigrant Chinese in colonial Rabaul and its hinterland (in German, later Australian, New Guinea) over almost a century to the Independence of Papua New Guinea in 1975. It is a companion piece to another study concerned with how Tolai people...
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The Mongol conquest was one of the bloodiest wars in human history. The Mongol conquest of China (1205-1279 AD … capacity, does not explain the long-term economic outcomes of China after the Mongol conquest …
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This paper argues that empires in the age of nations are beset by cultural contradictions that undermine attempts to create a cohesive social bloc able to achieve hegemonic rule. The proposition is tested through an examination of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Vogl’s new book relates finance to the internet industry and economics to politics. Introducing questions of colonial history and racism would further sharpen his view of the drivers and dynamics of contemporary capitalism.
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A recent book by Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik A Theory of Imperialism (2017) identifies ‘increasing supply price …', ‘the value of money' and ‘income deflation' as the three central features of imperialism. This book contains a commentary … also invite severe criticism from some left/Marxist writers who accuse him of being an ‘imperialism denier'. Why does the …
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The paper is an critical approach to the article by Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson (2005), “The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation”, which aims to identify the root causes of the differences in per capita income of countries by analyzing the differences...
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