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Expansionism
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TL;DR: McDougal and Lasswell as mentioned in this paper proposed a world public order based on human dignity that would save the world from nuclear Armageddon and protect democratic values, but it did not have universal effectiveness.
Abstract: The January 1959 issue of this Journal carried the famous proposal by Myres S. McDougal and Harold D. Lasswell to build a world public order based on human dignity that would save the world from nuclear Armageddon and protect democratic values. The authors expressed the belief that the democratic countries were responding ineffectively to Marxist-Leninist expansionism because they appealed to international law rules and principles that were asserted or assumed to be universal but, in fact, did not have universal effectiveness. Two dangers existed, therefore: the universal triumph of totalitarianism or nuclear war between blocs led by the United States and the Soviet Union. The proposed world public order would make it possible to escape this horrendous dilemma.
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TL;DR: The history of Italian imperialism in the nineteenth century has generally been highlighted by reference to the Treaty of Uccialli in 1889 and the Battle of Adowa in 1896 as mentioned in this paper, which is widely supposed to have been the basis for the extension of an Italian protectorate over Ethiopia, thus marking the creation of an, instant empire in East Africa.
Abstract: The history of Italian imperialism in the nineteenth century has generally been highlighted by reference to the Treaty of Uccialli in 1889 and the Battle of Adowa in 1896. That treaty is widely supposed to have been the basis for the extension of an Italian protectorate over Ethiopia, thus marking the creation of an, instant empire in East Africa. It has usually beern treated in terms; of a confusion of language between the Amharic and the! Italian texts oir as a deliberate duping of one party by the other. The battle, which led to the abnegation of the Treaty of Uccialli, was, to the chagrin of many an imperialist (and no doubt to the horror of Prime Minister Francesco, Crispi's government), a major defeat of a large European military force at the hands of an indigenous African army. Moreover, it caused the collapse of Italian imperialist designs in all areas of Africa until the, advent of the Libyan War in 1911-1912. Yet clearly there is far more to this chapter of imperialism than an unsuccessful diplomatic venture and a catastrophic military defeat. Some seek clarification by reference to, Hobson or Lenin and general theories of European expansion, but such an approach is inadequate because it does not raise the kinds of questions necessary to achieving an understanding of the historical rather than the theoretical phenomenon of Italian imperialism. Moreover, such theories have been based, especially in the! Italian case, on. a woeful lack of evidence. Others seek understanding by study of purely Italian, that is, peninsular, ideas and events the growth of industry in the north, the role of southern politicians, the desire to' emulate the expansionist slogans and activities; of the other great
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TL;DR: This paper analyzed broader sociocultural and political patterns that inflect migratory flows, and considered the significance of how migratory historiography bears upon social memory of Chinese female migrants.
Abstract: This paper broadens the analytical contours of Chinese migration by employing the paradigm of histoire croisee. By comparing three connected episodes within the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: (1) British expansionism; (2) Kuomintang activities and British migratory legislation; and (3) the interconnection of the slump in China's silk industry, the anti-marriage movement, and the intertwinement of historiographies of China and Singapore – the entangled histories approach offers analytic purchase for which Chinese migration can be scrutinised with attention paid to the interpellations of historical contingencies and economic relations. The paper therefore analyses broader sociocultural and political patterns that inflect migratory flows, and considers the significance of how migratory historiography bears upon social memory of Chinese female migrants.
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16 Mar 2016
TL;DR: Fast freezing, developed from the 1920s, preserved food quality, taste, and appearance better than earlier techniques as mentioned in this paper and was used to integrate the agricultural products of occupied and allied areas into a continental European economy under German control.
Abstract: Fast freezing, developed from the 1920s, preserved food quality, taste, and appearance better than earlier techniques. After 1933, the National Socialists encouraged fast freezing in Germany because it promised to solve wartime supply problems and aligned with their ideas about modernity, efficiency, and centralization. During World War II, they used freezing to integrate the agricultural products of occupied and allied areas into a continental European economy (Grossraumwirtschaft) under German control. Although occupied populations might have been expected to reject the German-led spread of fast freezing, French responses to these initiatives suggest that some occupied people interpreted them more positively. French experts saw German fast freezing as a continuation of pre-war projects and an investment for the post-war, when they hoped to see France use new infrastructures to gain a pivotal position in a broader European food economy. After surveying alignments between National Socialist expans...
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