Showing posts with label Imperialism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imperialism. Show all posts
Saturday, July 9, 2022

Harsha Walia, Border and Rule

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At Amazon, Harsha Walia, Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism .
Sunday, February 27, 2022

In Dramatic Shift, Germany Begins Military Rearmament

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You have to think about Germany for a second.  It's been 77 years since the end of World War II. In the first half of the 20th century, ...

Europe's Dependence on Russia's Natural Gas Supplies Following the Invasion of Ukraine

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Oil. Petroleum. Fossils fuels. No matter how much radical environmentalists deceive the leaders of the developed democracies, the fact remai...

Putin's Looking to Rebuild Russia's Empire

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 It's Niall Ferguson, at the Spectator U.K. , " Vlad the Invader ." The pun refers to Vlad the Impaler: ‘War’, in Prussian mil...
Friday, December 31, 2021

Electric Vehicle Batteries Exploding at General Motors' Orion Assembly Plant, Lake Orion, Michigan

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You have to read the whole thing. The Orion plant shifted to manufacturing 100 percent electricity vehicles, the Chevrolet Bolt, and with an...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Five-Star Emporium of Ambition in Kinshasha

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Following-up, " A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution ." At NYT.  " On the Banks of the Furious C...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa

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At Amazon, Thomas Pakenham, The Scramble for Africa: White Man's Conquest of the Dark Continent from 1876 to 1912 .

A Power Struggle Over Cobalt Rattles the Clean Energy Revolution

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I thought I'd posted on this topic earlier. The Times has been running a series on global demand for cobalt, to supply manufacturers of...

David Van Reybrouck, Congo

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At Amazon, David Van Reybrouck, Congo: The Epic History of a People .
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins

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C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution .
Saturday, November 28, 2020

Eric Clapton? Just Wow!

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Well, it was 1976, for some context. He's a little out of control, obviously. And at a live concert, basically telling immigrants to lea...
Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War

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At Amazon, Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa .
Monday, January 29, 2018

Indian Slavery

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This is pretty fascinating -- and tells you something about how far down identity politics has infested historiography and cultural assimila...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

Martin Meredith, Diamonds, Gold, and War

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I'm on a sort of Africa jag right now. It's been off and on, but since teaching South Africa in my comparative politics class this f...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa .

Steven Press, Rogue Empires

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At Amazon, Steven Press, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Scramble for Africa .
Monday, August 7, 2017

William R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond

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The best book of international political history. At Amazon, William R. Keylor, The Twentieth-Century World and Beyond: An International H...

Lawrence James, Empires in the Sun

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At Amazon, Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa .

Tim Butcher, Blood River

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Tim Butcher, Blood River: The Terrifying Journey Through The World's Most Dangerous Country .

Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz

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*BUMPED.* At Amazon, Michela Wrong, In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo .