[PDF] Imperialism And Idealism eBook

Author : David L. Anderson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 32,76 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253329189

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Combining biography with foreign-policy analysis, David L. Anderson provides a fresh interpretation of Sino-American relations in the nineteenth century. The book focuses on the eight Americans who occupied the chief U.S. diplomatic post in China from 1861 to 1898 and personally shaped American policy toward China in the forty years before Secretary of State John Hay's Open Door Notes. Their policies, as Anderson explains, were as varied as the eight individuals, and yet at the same time were characteristically American—expressing both idealistic altruism and imperialistic self-interest. Ultimately, John Hay merged the altruism and the self-interest in the Open Door Notes of 1899 and 1900, which influenced much of America's twentieth-century conduct in Asia. Anderson reemphasizes Hay's role in bridging the differences that have plagued U.S. policy in China.

Author : David Long
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791483932

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What were the guiding themes of the discipline of International Relations before World War II? The traditional disciplinary history has long viewed this time period as one guided by idealism and then challenged by realism. This book reconstructs in detail some of the formative episodes of the field's early development and arrives at the conclusion that, in actuality, the early years of International Relations were preoccupied not with idealism and realism but with the dual themes of imperialism and internationalism. Thus, the beginnings of the discipline have resonance with the recently revived discourse of empire and the global status and policies of the United States as the world's sole superpower.

Author : Joan Plubell Mattia
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2017-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1532600755

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The Victorian encounter with Africa contains many micro-narratives that call for a questioning of an old consensus. Tentative assumptions as to the motives of early missionaries and colonial personnel often prove less than satisfactory due to stereotypes and unexplored archives. The need for new master narratives that move beyond the old paradigms of Western expansion and African victimization are being called for by scholars of the Global North and South--narratives that allow room for strong evidence of an egalitarian joint endeavor and African cultural vitality without avoiding the investment in imperialism practiced by colonial personnel. Based on extensive archival research, Walking the Rift advocates an alternative proposal--missionaries and administrators caught in the grinding of contradictory opposites. As a professional artist, Alfred Robert Tucker captured this tug-of-war on canvas, but similar dichotomies are found in his approach to marriage contracts, slavery, mission and church organizational structure, alliance with the colonial government and African partnership. Tucker is a representative figure--a prism to shine light on those involved in the British East African project. Like many in the early encounter with Africa, he was neither a consistent imperialist nor a complete egalitarian idealist, but operated in both spheres without creating a third.

Author : Nikolas Barry-Shaw
Publisher : Fernwood Publishing
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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NGOs are as Canadian as hockey, declared a 1988 Parliamentary report. Few institutions epitomize the foundational Canadian myth of international benevolence like the non-governmental organization devoted to development abroad. This book raises important questions about these organizations and their development projects: Just how non-governmental are organizations that get most of their funding from government agencies? What impact do these funding ties have on NGOs' ability to support popular demands for democratic reforms and wealth redistribution? What happens when NGOs support a repressive regime? What happens when NGOs bite the hand that feeds them?

Author : Nazli Pinar Kaymaz
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1788360400

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This book gives a comprehensive account of the British Idealist approach to international relations from the 1880s to 1930s. In an attempt to historically contextualise the shifts in several British Idealists' approaches to the nature of international relations and human rights, it focuses on their reflections on the Second Boer War, the Great War and the League of Nations. The ensuing discussion offers valuable insights into British Idealists’ evolving approaches to the topics of imperialism, cosmopolitanism, internationalism, multiculturalism and human rights. While the pioneering Idealists like T.H. Green and Bernard Bosanquet are acknowledged as those who set the tone of discussion on these central issues, works by minor British Idealists such as J.S. Mackenzie, J.H. Muirhead, Henry Jones, R.B. Haldane and H.J.W. Hetherington reveal British Idealism’s capacity for adaptation to novel ideational positions under adverse international conditions.

Author : Nicholas Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
Release : 2008-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0199206597

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German writers, be it Goethe, Nietzsche, Marx, Brecht or Mann, have had a profound influence on the modern world. This Very Short Introduction illuminates the particular character and power of German literature, and examines its impact on the wider cultural world.

Author : Joan Plubell Mattia
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 26,37 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9781532600760

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Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Birmingham, 2007 under title: Walking the Rift: Alfred Robert Tucker in East Africa, idealism and imperialism, 1890-1911.

Author : David Steigerwald
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 23,71 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801429361

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As he traces the fate of universal ideals through American political thought, Steigerwald describes how the Wilsonians remained committed to the free market in the face of war and depression and continued to oppose interest groups in spite of the emergence of mass politics. In addition to demonstrating the capacity of Wilsonianism for regeneration and sustained influence, Steigerwald reveals the ironies that have attended its persistence across the century.