Search

The article presents information on several books. Some of them are: "An Onlooker's Note-Book"; "A Grand Duchess: The Life of Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Elsenach and the Classical Circle of Welmar," by Frances Gerard; "British Rule and Jurisdiction Beyond the Seas," by Henry Jenkyns; and "Colonial Government: An Introduction to the Study of Colonial Institutions," by Paul S. Reinsch. The first book is composed of papers which appeared in the Manchester Guardian during the year 1901, and the number of subjects treated, to judge from titles of the homilies, is very great. Further information on all these books is also mentioned.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of September 21, 1901. The attempt on U.S. President William McKinley's life at Buffalo, New York, on Friday last touched, as it could not fail to do, the national feeling, instantly and deeply. Nor could any moral and humane person hesitate to denounce without reservation the infamy of a crime not to be excused were the victim the meanest, instead of the most exalted, citizen. In another update, in considering the interesting paper of the Oxford, England correspondent, of the journal "Observer," on the causes of imperialism in England, the first thing that occurs to people is that Imperialism, Megalomania, or Jingoism, though there is a sudden access of it at present, is by no means so new a thing as "Observer," seems to assume.

The article focuses on the 33rd annual meeting of the American Historical Association at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The programme reflected, as was natural, the influence of the war and dealt rather more than is usual among historians with current events. In a conference the timely question of imperialism was discussed in a number of excellent papers, Oriental Imperialism, Greek Imperialism, roman imperialism and its decay. The increasing importance to the U.S. of her relations with the Far East found expression in papers on the Occidental attitude towards China by and on Japanese party politics and emigration.

This article presents information regarding archival collection of American history in London, England. These can be found in the library of the Archiepiscopal Palace at Lambeth, the library of the Bishop of London at Fulham, that of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in Delahay Street, and that of the old society now known as the New England Co. There is in the monument room at Fulham a large mass of papers relating to the times when the Episcopal Church in the American colonies was within the jurisdiction of the see of London.

The counter-revolution which took place in Vladivostok on the 26th and 27th of May must be considered a new step in the development of Japan's program of imperialistic expansion in Siberia. The accounts of the coup presented by various Siberian papers arid news agencies bring out very clearly the fact that it owed its success to Japanese intervention. In order to understand what happened in Vladivostok it is necessary to review briefly the events of the last few months in Siberia. After the fall of Kolchak in the winter of 1919-1920 the eastern frontier of Soviet Russia was advanced to Lake Baikal.

According to the author, this paper has bent its energies to the successful prosecution of the war from the day this country took up the struggle against Nazism. Not for one day has it swerved from this cause. It convinced those who were skeptical of the imperialist leaders of what people called a war of the people. What happened in Algiers, Algeria was not the product of a military decision made by a soldier in the stress of battle. People are not impressed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's assurances.

Nowadays an English provincial newspaper, under the heading of "America Day by Day," gives its readers the news of what has happened in the U.S. the day before. Throughout Great Britain also, the daily papers publish longer or shorter accounts of American news. This article focuses on newspapers about a hundred years ago. A newspaper was mainly a composition of paragraphs of news, of letters to the editor, and of advertisements. The editor adopted the views of a correspondent who severely criticized the ministers of the day in their actions towards the American Colonies.

Yi combined words with modified numbers and ornaments, proving poet Elisa Gab-bert's argument that punctuation (think: Emily Dickinson's feral dashes) may be the "bare-minimum" criterion for what makes a piece of writing poetry. The BOOKS & ARTS NOT LONG AFTER THE PUBLICATION AND SURPRISE SUCCESS of her first novel, The God of Small Things, in 1997, Arundhati Roy was invited onto a live radio show in London. Yi Sang: Selected Works By Yi Sang Edited by Don Mee Choi Translated by Jack Jung, Don Mee Choi, Sawako Nakayasu, Joyelle McSweeney Wave Books. The question of speech and empire, and what language a colonial subject should use, is a constant subtext in the poems, essays, and fiction of the avant-garde modernist Yi Sang. [Extracted from the article]

This article presents official documents bearing upon the early stages of the U.S. intervention in Nicaragua are taken from the Annual Report of the secretary of the Navy for 1913 and from "Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States," published by the U.S. Government, for years 1909, 1910, 1911, 1912, and 1913. Two dispatches from Thomas C. Moffat, United States Consul at Bluefields, Nicaragua, to Philander C. Knox, United States Secretary of State, predict and confirm the proclamation of Estrada revolution.

The paper focuses on the article "A Continental Statesman." The article lays great stress on the failure of the new kingdom to come to terms with the Pope. The Papacy, the author says, cannot restore the temporal power, but it cannot be reconciled with the monarchy. The Italian army might suffer a crushing defeat in the field, and a monarchy of revolutionary origin, like that of the Bonapartists or that of the House of Savoy in Italy, would be swept away on the morrow by a wave of popular rage and disappointment.

Jewish problem lies now divided between Palestine and the Diaspora and under the most favorable development of Palestine the scattered Jewries will long continue the overwhelmingly preponderant section as regards population. Palestine is a country little larger than Wales, from which French imperialism has already lopped off a northern slice, while Arab imperialism has robbed it of its extensibility eastwards, at the best it could barely shelter one-fourth of the sixteen million Jews of the Diaspora.

An essay is presented that is adapted from the Jonathan Schell Memorial Lecture on the Fate of the Earth by activist Beatrice Fihn, addressing the relation between feminism and anti-nuclear weapons activism. Topics include the aftermath of U.S. nuclear weapons use against civilians in Nagasaki, Japan and Hiroshima, Japan and nuclear weapons testing, the relation of nuclear weapons to patriarchy and colonialism, and the work of the movement International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN).

The article presents information about several contributors to the journal The Nation. One of the contributors to the journal is Charles W. Wood. He began his career as a locomotive fireman. He won a prize in an essay contest and got a position on a Syracuse paper. For years he was a special writer for the New York Sunday World and later for Collier's Weekly. Arthur Warner is the associate editor of The Nation. He has given special study to the island victims of American imperialism. He spent some time in Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands in 1923, and wrote a series of articles about those countries for The Nation.

Many accounts have been written of the significant events of 1914, the comings and goings of ambassadors, the grave speeches, the fateful telegrams flashing across Europe through the hot July nights, the mobilizations, and so on. But much less has been written of the trivia of that year. The London of 1914 is now an almost forgotten city, but to me, a young man newly arrived from what was then known as "the Colonies," it was a strange and exciting revelation. The reason for the strangeness, of course, was obvious, but the excitement, was felt by maturer and more sophisticated persons. Almost every day a new sensation seized the interest of the public, and it is curious and significant to recall how many of these sensations, or pseudo-sensations, were used by the press to arouse and flatter the patriotism of the British public.

As a matter of fact the term "Empire" is misapplied. The thing that threatens today the existence of the German people, and has already throttled the people of Ireland and is in course of throttling the people of India, Egypt, Malaya, and a score of other dependencies of the London, England, market is not an "Empire" but an Emporium. England fights only for profit, just as the tradesman deals only for profit. Her wars have always been wars undertaken on a profit and loss account. When the balance lay on the debit side, England sheathed the sword; when it lay on the credit side, she wrapped the whole world in war and from a safe point of observation counted up the gains and assessed the value of her investments in other men's blood.

The article focuses on the book "Memoirs of Barras." The book is a violent pamphlet and diatribe against the Emperor Napoleon and all his family, is now published, a long time after, they were written, by a man who is an ardent Bonapartist, viz, M. George Duroy, son of a historian. The historian was no ordinary man; he may be said to have brought about a revolution in the French University by using in his books the documents and methods of the new historical school. He was a strong liberal and was called to the post of minister of public instruction by Louis Napoleon at a time when the Second Empire was at war with the bishops of the Senate.

Presents letters to the editor on various topics. U.S. President William McKinley's assurance to the Secretary of the Anti-Imperialist League; Comments on President's Message on international actions; Relation between religion and national prosperity.

The article presents information on the book "The End of the War," by Walter E. Weyl. This book sets forth the necessary commonplaces of liberal opinion concerning the peace settlement. Weyl argues that England and France have been fighting, not militarism as such, but its incarnation in Germany as being dangerous to them. Because of her history, Germany has been seeing in militarism an insurance, whereas it could be to democracy only a menace. Weyl recommends the awakening of a vast body of public opinion firmly bent on securing for humanity the blessing for lasting peace and the immediate and active union of internationalists throughout the world.

This article focuses on the book "The Making of British India," by Ramsay Muir. When people consider the mass of original documents available for historians and students of the British period in India, the need of a volume of this convenient compass becomes apparent. While catalogues of official documents are more or less accessible, or are rapidly becoming so, together with the results of the valuable researches of enthusiasts like George Forrest and S.C. Hill, yet a small, synthetic collection of this material has always been desired. In this volume Muir has included the most important dispatches, treaties, statutes, and other documents from 1756 to 1858.

The oppression of Haitian editors under the American occupation was discussed by a Haitian journalist, Carlos Martins, at the International Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, held recently in Brussels. The Haitian penal code provides that any one detained in a house of arrest has a right to an examination within twenty-four hours, but the examining magistrate named by the phantom-president, in agreement with the High Commissioner, as always, permits weeks to go by without calling the prisoner to his office to question him as to his identity and on the subject of the accusation.

The article presents an overview of magazines for the month of December. The novel "Foregone Conclusions" by William Dean Howell, will have been the most eagerly looked for. In the final installment of "A Rebel's Recollections" the most noticeable fact is that of the religious revival which passed through the Confederate army when all rational hope of success had been abandoned, and which excited a superstitious trust in Providential interference on their side. Scribner's for this month brings to an end the "Great South" series. This energetic undertaking is said, in the editorial notes to have cost the magazine publishers thirty thousand dollars. The papers are to be made into a subscription book for Great Britain and her colonies, as well as the United States; and Messrs.

The article argues that the American tendency to cite its own history is dangerous. Those both within the Bush administration and those who oppose it turn to the Vietnam War, Watergate, McCarthyism and the Roman empire to frame their discourse. This supports the concept of an imperial United States that clouds the real issue, an essential misunderstanding of the lessons of the past.

The author discusses the attitudes of American conservatives towards the policies of President George W. Bush. Most Americans long ago stopped believing that George W. Bush is what he claimed to be during the 2000 presidential campaign: a compassionate conservative. But is George W. Bush a conservative at all? [W]hile few people would confuse George W. Bush for a liberal, whether the policies he's championed qualify as traditionally conservative is by no means clear. "Historically, conservatism in the United States has meant support for small government, balanced budgets, fiscal prudence and great skepticism about overseas adventures," notes Clyde Prestowitz, a former Reagan Administration official. "What I see now is an Administration that's not for any of these things." While there are plenty of Republicans who would take issue with Prestowitz's definition of the term, a growing number of conservative thinkers and policy-makers have begun to echo this view, as thumbing through the pages of the conservative press makes clear. At the root of their discomfort is a feeling not that the Bush Administration is too conservative but that it has forsaken the guiding principles of conservatism--prudence, caution, restraint--to pursue an agenda that is messianic and radical. Conservatives alienated from this expansive vision do not fall into a single ideological camp.

The article presents information on Cuban revolution. Fidel Castro claimed that his policy on the freedom of conscience and creativity was ample, generous, distinctive and limited. Over the years, this contradiction resolved itself, as it had to, into the even simpler proposition that Castro would decide what was and was not within the revolution. Cuba, was a small country that had repeatedly been invaded and despoiled by the United States. It had undergone an authentic popular revolution. As a direct result, it had been subjected to an increasing campaign of sabotage and destruction, including the hiring of Mafia agents by American Presidents for the purpose of political murder. Therefore, it was entitled to impose censorship as a matter of wartime exigency, just as any capitalist country would do in similar circumstances.

Art, so commonly invoked as a peaceful pursuit, has been a battle zone in the public sphere since 1990 in particular. The debate on public funding for the arts has taken a peculiar turn. That is why there is every danger that the National Endowment for the Arts, and other agencies like it, will disappear, and soon. The recent protests about the content of art in the U.S., coming from both the right and the left, have a recognizable imperial ring to them. Imperial culture is more and more given over to the vagaries of gossip and scandal.

Primate Visions is based on historian of science Donna Haraway's decade-long study of the (largely American and increasingly anthropological) study of monkeys and apes over the course of this century. Nonhuman primates, Haraway points out, were shifted to the position of "our primitive ancestors" at midcentury as rapid decolonization made the application of that Western label to small- scale "tribal" populations increasingly embarrassing. Haraway has done her homework. She grounds this theoretical stance on primatology's evolution in a series of minutely detailed case studies of individual researchers and their intellectual and institutional milieus.

The article discusses two books "Mating birds," by Lewis Nkosi and "Fools and Other Stories," by Najabulo Ndebele. Nkosi's book feels like the work of a superb critic. Heavy with symbolism, analytical rather than dramatic, it attempts nothing less than an allegory of colonialism and apartheid, one that dares to linger in complexity. Ndebele's book attempts less and perhaps achieves more. It dwells on the sensations and physical details, the ordinariness, of a township boyhood. But this boyhood is middle class: instead of ragged miners and sorghum beer, here is a world of schoolbooks, nurses, gramophones. The stories pit a boy's anxious desire for manhood and meaner streets against the burden of a bourgeois upbringing.

When Alan García was elected President of Peru a little over a year ago, many people hoped that this bright young leader would put forward a new model for the region. García started out using radical rhetoric, proclaiming that he would defend the country against U.S. imperialism and promising to end economic exploitation of the poor. But García's first year has raised serious doubts about his commitment to social change and his support for the substance as well as the form of democracy. The evidence increasingly indicates that his chief interest is in building a party machine that will keep him in power.

The article presents information about several contributors to the journal The Nation. One of the contributors to the journal is Leonard Cline. He has contributed the article on Michigan to The Nation's series These United States. His first novel, God Head, will be published very soon. M.M. Knight is yet another contributor to the journal. He is now in Morocco as observer and correspondent at the front. He has been assistant professor of history at Columbia University, specializing in French colonial government.

This article presents information on the Ever since the Soviet-Nazi pact was signed, Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexico's pro-Communist labor leader, has been in virtual retirement. He was succeeded as president of the C.T.M. by Fidel Velasquez, an anti-Stalinist, and his political influence vanished when Mexican President went out of office. A few days before the outbreak of the Soviet-Nazi war Toledano attempted comeback by publicly charging Velasquez and President Avila Camacho with being in the service of "Anglo-American imperialism." The attempt failed dismally, but Toledano has now managed a real comeback as leader of a new organization pressing for Latin American support of the Soviet Union and Great Britain.

This article discusses several books in brief. Some of the books are "The Voice of Norway," by Halvdan Koht and Sigmund Skard, "The French Colonies: Past and Future," by Jacques Stern, "McCarthy of Wisconsin," by Edward A. Fitzpatrick, and others. Colonel Fitzpatrick's book is a dignified, vigorous, and always readable introduction, to the career of an enlightened and warm hearted, man who might well serve as a model for the American public servant. Particularly disturbed by Wendell Wilikie's notion that the colonies must be given back to their inhabitants, Stern expatiates on French efforts at education, religious tolerance, and political equality among colonials.

The Chinese have always been a curious people and they are possessed of some very queer old customs. The managers of the Greatest Show on Earth seem to have chosen the present Soviet Union government to act as their Invisible Property Man. Officially they refuse to believe that there is such a thing as a Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. As far as Washington is concerned, official Soviet Union simply does not exist. There is some trouble, so it appears, about the exact status of a certain country called Manchuria. Japan wants that country and China wants it or has it and the two nations threaten to go to war with each other on account of this distant and mysterious territory.

This article presents the author's views on the influence of dictator Adolf Hitler on young generation. Most young Germans had been disappointed by the revolution of 1918 and the events that followed. They had believed that a thorough change in economic conditions was necessary; but the German democracy, even in its Social Democratic branch, was essentially conservative In particular, petty-bourgeois idealists who regarded Versailles as a national humiliation were prone to dream about a strong Reich-a mixture of medievalism and modern imperialism; and Hitler seemed to offer this in his Third Reich.

This article discusses several international and domestic issues. Outwardly the move of the U.S. Administration in offering independence to Puerto Rico within four years seems, to the uncritical eye, the generous act of a liberty-loving people. There was no attempt to enlist the counsel or support of Puerto Rican leaders, no impartial investigation of conditions on the island and its relations with the U.S., no open consideration of the grounds of policy. Changes made in U.S. Government's tax bill since its introduction in the House two months ago have been so many and so technical that the voter is left somewhat bewildered regarding the present status of the measure.

This article focuses on freedom movement in Morocco. The French occupation of Morocco goes back to 1912, when the powerful Bank of Paris, alleging high moral motives, induced French diplomacy with the help of military power to force the Sultan of Morocco to sign a treaty depriving him of practically all the rights of a sovereign ruler. In 1930, a group of French-educated intellectuals organized the Istiqlal (Independence) Party. The fight against French rule was held by the Istiqlal alone until 1950, when the Sultan Sidi Mohammed realized that the movement had enough popular support to make an alliance with it worth while.

The single feature of the Malaysian federation demonstrates the complete folly, and danger, of the plan. Although Ely Culbertson, bridge expert, thinks his scheme "offers an adequate substitute for power politics," what would Americas domination of Malaysia represent but the worst kind of power politics plus a new, far-flung American imperialism? Culbertson convicts himself. "In the Netherlands East Indies," he writes, "the Netherlands shall retain her essential sovereign rights, except the right to maintain military or air-naval bases."

This article focuses on various events going all round the world. When Joachim Von Ribbentrop was in Moscow he seems to have won Joseph Stalin over to the tactics of the anti-Comintern. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini's conduct in Spain is not the most admirable of precedents for a government that purports to be anti-imperialist and a union of socialist republics. On the other hand, in Asia there have been few changes of a tangible nature since the signing of the Soviet-German pact. Japan is still bogged down in the vastness of China, and its recent minor victory at Nanning has not offset its defeat at Changsha.

Presents several letters to the editor on articles previously published in this journal. Information on the imperialism in Rome; Response to the article on Democrat William Bryan's nomination; Comments on the immigration policies of the U.S. government.

This article presents information on various political developments in the world. The idea is quite generally entertained, that the acquisition of the Philippine Islands is not a manifestation of "imperialism." According to this view, the U.S. shall hold these islands because it do not know what else to do. The U.S. has not been moved by greed or by the desire for military glory. In the concussion of war the Philippine Islands were knocked out of Spain's pocket. It is not the Philippine Islands in themselves that arouse commercial greed, but what the possession of the Philippine Islands will lead to. Beyond them there is the vast continent of Asia, and the visions of empire there which float before the eyes of some of U.S. statesmen are simply gorgeous. If there is any one generally recognized test of advancement in civilization, it is the treatment of prisoners of war. Among all the curiosities which the war with Spain has produced, nothing would have seemed antecedently more unlikely than that it should have ended in a testimonial, from the Spanish soldiers, to the humanity and consideration with which they, as prisoners of war, had been treated.

This article presents the author's experience of his visit to Soviet Union in the year 1946. Critics on the left are apt to resent this exaltation of national sentiment and conclude that Soviet imperialism has replaced the old internationalism. That is too simple an interpretation. A good part of Russian pride is rooted in the knowledge that the country, which gave the world this extraordinary example of resistance and heroism, is the country of socialism. One cannot make a clear distinction between ideology and the big-power concept. To interpret Russian policy exclusively in terms of power politics is sure to lead to false conclusions; to interpret it exclusively from the point of view of revolutionary ideology would be equally misleading.

This article presents information on the manifesto issued by the international communist congress after its meeting on 2 March, 1919. The said meeting was attended by thirty-two delegates representing eighteen Communist or Left Socialist parties, together with representatives of fifteen organizations of Europe and Asia who attended the meeting in an advisory capacity. The manifesto appeals to labor men and women to fight against imperialist barbarity, against monarchy, against the privileged classes, against the bourgeois state and bourgeois property, against all kinds and forms of social and national oppression.

Recent months have called forth many queries and many opinions concerning the German system of government. The queries spring in part from a spontaneous, unprejudiced desire for information, in part from a confusion worse confounded by the divergence of opinions that have been expressed, by the conflict of two assertions that Germany enjoys a democratic form of government and that it is ruled by the iron hand of an autocrat. One sees that this conflict has arisen, chiefly, because the authors of the one or the other assertion have considered only the theory or only the practice of German government. For it can be proved, like a problem in mathematics, that in theory the German Imperial Constitution grants the principle, and affords the means, of representative popular government, but that in practice Germany today is virtually an absolute monarchy.

Focuses on socio-political conditions of Uganda. Reasons for the callous expulsion of Asians from Africa by General Idi Amin of Uganda; Steps taken by Amin to solve the social problems of Uganda; Colonial history of Uganda; Efforts of President A. Milton Obote for the economic development of the country.

Presents several letters to the editor concerning various political and social problems issues discussed in previous issues of this periodical. Focused on the upholding of the Turkish Empire in Europe; Views on the publication of a letter concerning the management of the American Historical Association; and Desire to know about Dutch marine painter, Albertus Van Beest.

Throughout the vast Latin-American world, this century's outstanding popular hero is Augusto C. Sandino who for six years fought for the independence of Nicaragua against foreign invasion by the most powerful military nation in history, the United States. His David-Goliath exploits are the theme of song and ballads. He is celebrated in articles, biographies and novels. His ghost has haunted every Pan American reunion and every goodwill emissary from U.S. President Herbert Hoover to Richard Nixon.

Although in 1895 the name Anti-Imperialist had not yet come into use, U.S. President Grover Cleveland was one in principle. Robustly opposed to expansion by the U.S., he was no less ready to resist it by any other country. His Venezuela Message of 1895 emphatically asserting the Monroe Doctrine in defiance of Great Britain, touched off a burst of chauvinism and jingoism that revealed the U.S. in a mood of startling pugnacity. No question of gain, territorial or otherwise was involved in Venezuela; it was simply a question, as it seemed to Cleveland, of asserting an American right.

The article discusses some of the socio-economic updates related to the U.S. The present high rates for money throughout the world have a direct connection with imperialism. Interest rates had been declining all over the world, because the older civilized countries had become fully equipped with the machinery of production. The increase of the English public debt and the increase in the debt of Japan, account for the absorption of much of the capital, which is now so eagerly desired for constructive work at home. The Geological Society of London has just been celebrating its centennial and the speakers of the occasion have dwelt on the vast strides which the science has made in the hundred years.

This article presents developments in the field of literature and it's publishing, as of October 31, 1907. Whether Conservatives or Liberals have been in power, the affairs of India and of Egypt have been conducted with almost the same uniformity as Great Britain's naval policy. The upsetting of two party system at the last general election, the appearance of a powerful third element, means that the separation of domestic and Imperial administrations may not in the future be so rigidly preserved as hitherto. Great Britain is confronted with the grave question whether it can continue to deny a generous measure of self-government to its subjects in India and Egypt. Another development focuses on the work done by several associations and societies in the U.S. for bird breeding.

The article presents information on various developments related to publishers and publishing. Henry Holt & Co. have ready for publication two new volumes in J.A. Doyle's "English Colonies in Americas" dealing respectively with the Middle Colonies and the Colonies under the House of Hanover. The "Pennsylvania-German," a monthly magazine, established in 1900, and published at East Greenville, contains in its January issues four articles on German migrations in the U.S. and Canada. Some other books discussed in the article are, "The Life of Sir Henry Vane the Younger," by William W. Ireland, "The Ohio River," by Archer Butler Huthert.

This article discusses the political developments in the United States. Some observers think the Democrats should return to their liberal roots. For example, Congressman Barney Frank wants his fellow Democrats to make their rhetoric more persuasive as it concerns self-reliance, patriotism and crime in his study of the politics of the past thirty years, argues that liberals should admit that welfare causes dependency and concentrate now on providing jobs and rewarding work. Perhaps the Democrats won't do what opportunistically as well as morally they should because they are so compromised by big money. One specialist in political parties makes a startlingly persuasive case that the Democrats should fundamentally change their geographical strategy.