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This article examines the history of the concept of social imperialism in Great Britain originated by publisher and editor Robert Blatchford in 1891. For the doctrinal origins of Blatchford's defencism, one need go no deeper than his belief that gradual means were in every way the best for the attainment of socialism, and that Britain and its white dominions constituted the friendliest political environment for gradualism ever known. The periods when Blatchford was most vocal on the invasion danger were during the Boer War and from 1907 on. The later threat soon came to seem the more serious, and over the years Blatchford's insistence lost him more admirers and the Clarion more readers than anything else in the paper's history. Though agreeing with other socialists that the South African war was one of economic aggression, Blatchford refused to attack British soldiers or admire their Calvinist enemies. Among other gradualist leaders, one could note that Hardie, while agreeing with the socialist diagnosis, was remarkably vague as to whether this reinforcement of international finance at the expense of his Boer idols would prove a bad thing in the long term.

Both increased dependency and decreased threat were found to increase likelihood of American Ss' assisting an experimenter by signing their names. A threat by dependency interaction indicated that the effect of threat was operative only under low and moderate dependency levels. No comparisons involving sex of E or of S were significant, providing no support for status threat or reactance theories which would predict that men would be less likely to help under high dependency conditions, particularly for a male E or under conditions of high threat. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an abstract a research on labor movements and colonial expansion. The aim of this paper is to take a fresh look at the attitude adopted by the French working class movement, faced with imperialism, considering it on two levels,first, the leaders, secondly, the masses. Notwithstanding the lack of basic studies on the subject, but with the help of some recent works, one can attempt to analyze on one side the theoretical and doctrinal positions and on the other the actual mentality of the workers .The period under scrutiny extends from 1880 until 1912,leaving aside the crisis of 1914 with its multifold and intricate aspects. Hence,preliminary remark concerns the matter of vocabulary. It was a long time before the term imperialism taken in the modem sense of the word, came into common use. Only in the years immediately preceding 1914 did it become colloquial. For it was not until 1880 that the word imperialism appear in the French languages a translation from the English, to describe the doctrine of Greater Britain's supporters. The French working class, therefore, had to react against the phenomenon itself, long before they had the word at their disposal.

The article focuses on the impact of scientific and technological advances in East Asia. According to the author, the flow of experts started before there was a formal U.S. government point four program in Asia. Moreover, the interchange of experts has characterized the past decade in east Asia, as the foregoing which highlights one aspect of the flow of experts. Furthermore, as Japan experience scientific advancement and become more westernized, it carries the results of the westernization to its colonies.

Italians held large areas of the better agricultural land in Libya in 1940. Although the colonists in Cyrenaica were evacuated prior to British occupation, the majority of those in Tripolitania remained to face an uncertain future under British and then Libyan administration. The pace of land transfers accelerated after the 1956 Italo-Libyan Accord and spread from planned settlements to private farms and estates By 1964, Libyans controlled practically all former Italian lands. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between authoritarianism and the evaluation of the appropriateness of role behaviors. A revised California F Scale was used to measure the personality variable, and an adaptation of the Triandis Role Differential was employed to assess the role perceptions of 227 Chinese university students. It was found that 1. The high- and low-authoritarian students did not differ in the number, nature, and relative weights of the meaningful role-behavior factors extracted. Of the 10 rotated orthogonal factors, the largest were Nurturance, Hostility, Superordination, Acquiescence, Subordination, and Dependency, which exhibited considerable resemblance to some of the role differential behavior-factors obtained by Triandis et al. (19). 2. For the subordinate-superordinate role-pairs and for those of equal power, authoritarianism correlated positively with the appropriateness of the Nurturance, Acquiescence, Subordination, and Dependency factors; whereas for the superordinate-subordinate role-pairs, authoritarianism correlated positively with the appropriateness of Superordination only. These results are consistent with our theoretical expectations concerning the relationship between authoritarianism and role perceptions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a list of books related to man and his habitat including "A New Earth: An Experiment in Colonialism," by Elspeth Huxley, "Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth," edited by William L. Thomas and "Regions, Resources, and Economic Growth," by Harvey S. Perloff, Edgar S. Dunn, Jr., Eric L. Lampard and Richard F. Math.