The end of World War 2 left Southeast Asia in an interesting albeit complex period. The once mighty European colonial empires started to crumble, having exhausted their fiscal resources and capacities in fighting the war. With decolonization, some countries like Indonesia declared independence, while other countries were left in a state of anomie, with the already existent internal turmoil such as segregated and suppressed ethnic groups and unstable democracy . The region undeniably saw the rise
a range of historiographical debate on its validity and usefulness when used to explain British expansion in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. This essay acknowledges both sides of the argument, but will state that despite some historiographical debate on the contrary, the concept of ‘informal empire’ possesses more strengths than weaknesses when understanding British imperialism. This essay will disregard Platt and Lynn’s argument that Britain didn’t actually want an ‘informal empire’
economic bloom and prosperity not just for itself, but for other developing countries. From 1950 – 1980 marvelled at the economic growth that was brought about the First American Empire. Growth in developing countries soared than any other stage in colonial history (Amsden, 2007:1). The first American Empire can to some extent be spotted by, military, cultural influence and economic power over other countries or states. America had spread over foreign lands of the developing world. “The American Empire’s
State building and Nation Building (Journal Article) This is an essay by Juan J. Linz, which discusses the processes involved in state and nation building from a historical and contemporary perspective. It explains the difficulties faced in making a nation out of a state and vice versa. 4. State and Society in India:
Over the years Nigeria has witnessed several empty, jabberwocky inordinate promises from our political gladiators who has used the magic of language to cajole many. However, language serves as a strong tool that our political leaders used for easy communication of thought that enhance winning of political mandate. This paper shows how language is used in politics as a tool to communicate thought and how language is used as a train to which political leaders convey meaning to the heart of Nigerians
English Language and Literature Studies; Vol. 5, No. 1; 2015 ISSN 1925-4768 E-ISSN 1925-4776 Published by Canadian Center of Science and Education 13 Historicizing Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness: A Critique of King Leopold II’s Colonial Rule Isam Shihada1 1 Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine Correspondence: Isam Shihada, Associate Professor of English Literature and Gender Studies, Department of English, Gaza Strip, Palestine
short story in south sea tales book. It was a hybrid form that was Longish short story and divided into five chapters that wrote by a number of prominent writers including Arthur Conan Doyle, Rudyard Kipling, HernyJames and Stevenson himself. So this essay
period of transition can be further broken into two periods of transitions, the first one from the Mughal Empire to the regional states and the second from the regional states to the British colonies which are both described separately later in the essay. A society always maintains the notion of constant total power. If a society is controlled by another society, the latter one may be seen as an external power factor. This implies that all individual powers of a society should add up to a constant
CHAPTER - I INTRODUCTION “History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process aided by the wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power causing the upset of man’s moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”- Rabindranath Tagore, Nationalism, 1917. Aristotle felt that the purpose of