Imperialism
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From  Petroleum and GeopoliticsFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Discusses petroleum, the most valuable commodity in world trade, and its ties to politics and power. Introduces the links between governments and oil corporations, the history of petrodollars in … | John Foster | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Post-Roman extractionFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces imperial extraction from the Arab expansion in the seventh century through the medieval period. | Samir Saul | 8 | 2025 | $0.80 Add |
 NEW! Postcards from CongoA Graphic History |
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and … | Edmund Trueman | 176 | 2022 | View |
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From  Power to Those Who Have It!Phillip Gourevitch |
In Chapter 9, Philpot explores the notion of the chosen “good” chiefs who the Europeans used during their imperial and colonial pursuits in Africa. Philpot discusses two African … | Robin Philpot | 11 | 2013 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Imperialism |
In this preface, Saul examines imperialism as the use of extra-economic means for economic ends, a pattern spanning all eras rather than a single stage of capitalism. | Samir Saul | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! PrefaceFrom: Postcards from Congo |
Preface by author Edmond Trueman explaining his motivations behind the book and the choice to make it an illustrated history. | Edmund Trueman | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface: The Demon MetalFrom: Cobalt |
In the Preface author Charlie Angus provides a brief history of cobalt and its importance to digital technology, clean energy, and electric vehicles. He also discusses the darker side of cobalt … | Charlie Angus | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Prologue Two: Troubling Facts and Observations about a Perilous AgeFrom: Thinking Systematics |
In this chapter, Smith and Hayslip trace widening wealth inequality, the erosion of liberal democracy, human-caused environmental damage, and escalating tensions in international relations. | Murray E.G. Smith; Tim Hayslip | 10 | 2025 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Regime Change |
Two forces sought to topple the secular Arab nationalists of Ba’athist Syria, each for its own, and separate reasons. Both forces were equally determined to end the influence of secular … | Stephen Gowans | 31 | 2017 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Resurrection of the BanderitesFrom: Family Ties |
This chapter discusses the Maidan uprising in 2013, Ukrainian Nationalist Volodmyr Parasiuk, and rising right-wing political tensions in Ukraine. | Peter McFarlane | 11 | 2024 | $1.10 Add |
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From NEW! Rise to power of the Atlantic world: Netherlands, England, FranceFrom: Imperialism |
In this chapter, Saul traces the shift of the global economic centre from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, centring on the rise of the … | Samir Saul | 22 | 2025 | $2.20 Add |
Rwanda and the New Scramble for AfricaFrom Tragedy to Useful Imperial Fiction |
“… essential reading.” Edward S. Herman An accepted narrative holds that horrible Rwandan Hutu génocidaires planned and executed a satanic scheme to eliminate nearly a million Tutsis after a … | Robin Philpot | 276 | 2013 | View |
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From  Sabotaging an Alternative to the US-Led Global Economic Order |
Chapter thirteen, Sabotaging an Alternative to the US-Led Global Economic Order focuses on a north Korean reunification. The DPRK defines itself as “a revolutionary State” originating … | Stephen Gowans | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From Scouts at her Majesty’s Service |
In Chapter 4, Philpot critiques and highlights the fact that a commission comprising of mainly American, Canadian, and French nationals– six of ten members of whom admitted that they knew … | Robin Philpot | 12 | 2013 | $1.20 Add |
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From Sunday at the CesspoolGil Courtemanche |
In Chapter 11, Philpot critiques Gil Courtemanche’s novel Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, in which Courtemanche describes himself as “an eye-witness report,” even though he was … | Robin Philpot | 9 | 2013 | $0.90 Add |
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From Supressing a Worldwide Movement of Liberty, Equality and the Unity of Humankind |
Chapter seven, Suppressing a Worldwide Movement for Liberty, Equality, and the Unity of Humankind focuses on the ideology of the communist movements growing in number across the colonial world, … | Stephen Gowans | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
