Willard Straight and the Paradox of Liberal Imperialism
01 Aug 1997-Pacific Historical Review (University of California Press Journals)-Vol. 66, Iss: 3, pp 363-397
TL;DR: Straight used to be a favorite of historians as mentioned in this paper, and his friend Croly eulogized him in a full-length life-and-letters biography, portraying him as an energetic and tragic figure.
Abstract: Willard Straight used to be a favorite of historians. The sometime diplomat and full-time imperialist promoter enjoyed a brief glory period after his death in the influenza epidemic of 1919. His friend Herbert Croly eulogized him in a full-length life-and-letters biography, portraying him as an energetic and tragic figure.1 A later historiographical generation awarded him even more prominence as a stock villain in the drama of expanding capitalism. After all, he worked for E. H. Harriman, J. P. Morgan, and National City Bank; served in the Department of State under Elihu Root and then Philander Knox; and had the approval of Theodore Roosevelt. He popped up at all the key moments of American expansionism, and he was likely to say, flat out, "I am a borne [sic] imperialist," a "rank imperialist," an "Imperialist confirmed and deep dyed."2 Straight's eager
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01 Jan 1993
TL;DR: From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture.
Abstract: From Jane Austen to Salman Rushdie, from Yeats to the media coverage of the Gulf War, this is an account of the roots of imperialism in European culture. While many historians and commentators have analyzed the phenomenon of the imperial power wielded by Britain (and France) in the 19th century, this book analyzes its impact on the culture of the period. The author focusses on the way this cultural legacy has embedded itself in the Western view of the East, and affects our relationship with the formerly colonized world at every level, both social and political. The author also wrote "Orientalism".
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TL;DR: Gordimer and Sartre as discussed by the authors described a portrait of the colonizer as a " Mythical Portrait of the Colonized" and the Colonizer Who Refuses to Accept.
Abstract: Preface (1965) * Introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre * New Introduction by Nadine Gordimer * Part One: Portrait of the Colonizer - Does the Colonial Exist? * the Colonizer Who Refuses * the Colonizer Who Accepts * Part Two: Portrait of the Colonized - Mythical Portrait of the Colonized * Situations of the Colonized * The Two Answers of the Colonized * Part Three: Conclusion
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