COMPLETE Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4, by Parker Thomas Moon - rr

[Alister]

Hi Redrun,

I'm about to upload the last section, so it is just proof corrections left.

Here is a list of item tags for Internet Archive. It's a little bit long, sorry

Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Japan, Italy, United States, Portugal, Spain, Imperialism, Colonialism, Anti-Imperialism, Geopolitics, World Politics, Nationalism, Diplomacy, Economics, Propaganda, Socialism, Capitalism, Capitalist, Socialist, Imperialist, Nationalist, Liberalism, Free Trade, Genocide, Racism, Civilisation, Civilization, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, West Africa, Congo, Kongo, Congo Free State, Samoa, Sulu, Transvaal, Togoland, French Equatorial Africa, Kamerun, Cameroons, Nigeria, Gold Coast, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Senegal, Mittelafrika, Niger, Dahomey, Liberia, Sahara, French Guinea, Angola, Herero, Cape Colony, Walvis Bay, Sokoto, Gambia, São Tomé, Príncipe, Rio de Oro, Spanish Guinea, Mozambique, Portuguese Guinea, Cape Verde, Rubber, Iron, Steel, Cocoa, Cotton, Textiles, Shipping, Cotton Baron, Shipping Magnate, Copal, Copra, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Tea, Copper, Kerosene, Finance, Railway, Coaling Station, Slavery, Atlantic Slave Trade, Arab Slave Trade, Abolition, Jingo, Jingoism, Benjamin Disraeli, Francesco Crispi, Otto von Bismarck, Wilhelm II, William Mackinnon, Gerson von Bleichröder, Adolph von Hansemann, Johann Cesar Godeffroy, Adolf Lüderitz, Rothschilds, Gottlieb von Jagow, Edward Grey, Lichnowsky, Frederick Lugard, Leopold II, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Harvey Firestone, Theodore Roosevelt, King Bell, Ndumbé Lobé Bell, Gustav Nachtigal, Heinrich Vogelsang, Adolf Woermann, Harry Johnston, William Ewart Gladstone, George Goldie Taubman, Charles-Georges de Semellé, Roger Casement, Granville George Leveson-Gower, Henry Morton Stanley, Jules Ferry, Russian Asiatic Bank, British India Steam Navigation Company, Kolonialverein, Deutsche See Handelsgesellschaft, Disconto-Gesellschaft, Deutsche Handels und Plantagengesellschaft der Süd See, Deutsche Bank, Firestone Plantations Company, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Lever Brothers, Unilever, Compagnie française de l'Afrique équatoriale, Royal Geographical Society, United African Company, Société Internationale Forestière et Minière du Congo, Aborigines Protection Society of Great Britain, Domaine de la Couronne, Association Internationale du Congo, Comité d'Études du Haut Congo

[Alister]

https://librivox.org/uploads/redrun/imperialism1of4_08_moon_128kb.mp3

Section 8 - Length 30:26

All I'm going to say is Moon sure loves using the word 'negro' as a qualifier where it probably isn't needed. Kinda awkward to read, but I guess that was the lexicon of the day. And speaks for itself, in a way, for the attitudes and zeitgeist of the times. Likely won't get much better for most of Part 2, I suspect.

Looking forward to Part 3 in this at least.

[Alister]

Section 07 Correction uploaded, new time 27:08

https://librivox.org/uploads/redrun/imperialism1of4_07_moon_128kb.mp3

[redrun]

Here is a list of item tags for Internet Archive. It's a little bit long, sorry

Hrmm, and here's where I'm sorry to have to waste so much of your time in putting this list together.

Archive has a... I'm not sure if it's a "strong preference" or a limit, but anyone entering tags manually on their site can only put in about a dozen. When TedL asked about it, an Archive staffer said to stick to that, even though our uploader code can send more tags because of a loop-hole.

I know we have a lot of projects that go over this limit - some by quite a lot! It might be a recent change, for all I know. But now that we know Archive doesn't want this many tags, I'm going to abide by that going forward.

Our system adds the 'librivox' and 'audiobooks' tags automatically, so if you can find a list of 10 tags that represent the major events, people or concepts covered, that would be ideal. If it helps any, here are the 12 tags you entered originally:

Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, colonialism, west africa, imperialism, nigeria, congo, liberia, dahomey, niger

[DrSpoke]

Section 7: splok, but the length is possibly yet to update.

Section 8, just a morsel missing:

116@18:56
the world's largest producer of cocoa. And Nigeria rapidly becoming a competitor. Nothing could better demonstrate the folly of Leopold's

All I'm going to say is Moon sure loves using the word 'negro' as a qualifier where it probably isn't needed. Kinda awkward to read, but I guess that was the lexicon of the day. And speaks for itself, in a way, for the attitudes and zeitgeist of the times. Likely won't get much better for most of Part 2, I suspect.

I know; it doesn't make me comfortable either. Besides, whatever non-fiction I read for LV is not necessarily all stuff I agree with - in fact, that's never the case - but it would have part-content which is worth giving more awareness and accessibility to. And, as you say, the zeitgeist is very important.

P.S. All this talk on cocoa. You must be in such a state..

[Alister]

P.S. All this talk on cocoa. You must be in such a state..

Oh. . . I guess that is why I ended up ordering a bunch of Tim Tams on Amazon the day before yesterday

Parker Thomas Moon. Still doing his bit to support the chocolate industry.

That was actually quite interesting, because Ghana (Gold Coast) is still the second largest producer, and Nigeria fifth largest. The largest producer today is Ivory Coast and Cameroon is number four. So those colonies definitely had the potential to be doing far better commercially.

The proof is in the. . . block of chocolate?

[Alister]

Here is a list of item tags for Internet Archive. It's a little bit long, sorry

Hrmm, and here's where I'm sorry to have to waste so much of your time in putting this list together.

Archive has a... I'm not sure if it's a "strong preference" or a limit, but anyone entering tags manually on their site can only put in about a dozen. When TedL asked about it, an Archive staffer said to stick to that, even though our uploader code can send more tags because of a loop-hole.

I know we have a lot of projects that go over this limit - some by quite a lot! It might be a recent change, for all I know. But now that we know Archive doesn't want this many tags, I'm going to abide by that going forward.

Our system adds the 'librivox' and 'audiobooks' tags automatically, so if you can find a list of 10 tags that represent the major events, people or concepts covered, that would be ideal. If it helps any, here are the 12 tags you entered originally:

Great Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, colonialism, west africa, imperialism, nigeria, congo, liberia, dahomey, niger

Bleh. Well that sucks for discoverability. Especially since you can't exactly 'full text search' an audiobook and aren't likely to be able to in future - using AI for that across an entire catalogue would be very intensive. Not sure Internet Archive has full text search (yet) but Hathi does. Likely it will come one day, but relevant audiobooks will always be nearly impossible to find in that case without someone revisiting them down the line. Maybe in future I'll try and pack the summary with as many buzz words as I possibly can. That would be as good for search engine discoverability (not that they are generally worth much in this day and age, but I live in hope for the future).

I guess to maximize relevance of results over casting a wide net, I'll roll with a few interesting or key actors, rather than abstract concepts and countries;

Jules Ferry, Henry Morton Stanley, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, Leopold II, Gustav Nachtigal, Benjamin Disraeli, Adolf Lüderitz, Unilever, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, William Ewart Gladstone

Edit ~

And here is a reworked summary;

Moon’s Iᴍᴘᴇʀɪᴀʟɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ Wᴏʀʟᴅ Pᴏʟɪᴛɪᴄs is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was published in 1926 and did not go out-of-print until after 1940. “What convenient volume,” he asks, exists as a “general account of the greater imperialism of our own times?” A question which was suitably answered by the publication of this sweeping survey of the field.

Written in what would prove to be the gathering twilight of European imperialism, and with the inclination towards reflection that only the aftermath of a great catastrophe like the First World War can evoke, this work spans the globe and follows behind Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan and the United States as they shaped world politics to their own ends—imposing their will on states, economies and peoples.

Moon writes of his work that, “It can make no claim to finality.” Indeed, this is surely not the last word on the subject. Not in the past. Not even, truly, in the present. And yet, Moon’s work does possess a greater degree of finality than he at the time, perhaps, might have credited.


THIS IS PART ONE OF FOUR.

In this part, Moon casts a bright light upon the driving forces, the economics and the vested interests. He unpicks the propaganda, the rationalizations, and the theories. The slide from the Anti-Imperialism, which still held sway in the 1860s, to the Scramble for Africa as free trade faltered, tariff walls were erected, and the economic rationale shifted.

He also follows the Belgians into the Congo, and casts an eye over West Africa where—over the course of five decades—the region has been transformed by Great Britain, France and Germany in pursuit of resources and cash crops. Rubber and Cocoa. Palm Oil and Tropical Wood. Gold and Diamonds.

At the other end of the supply chain, the new colonialism created captive markets within which to dump excess manufactured goods which the tariff-constrained industrial economies of Europe could not absorb domestically.

Rivers and railways were the spigots with which to tap the bounty of Africa’s interior, but it took African labour to harvest it first. Accordingly when George Taubman Goldie secured Nigeria for the British, he secured the crown jewel of West Africa. Powerful native polities such as the Sokoto Caliphate and the Kingdom of Dahomey would be unmade, crumbling before the technological and industrialized might of European interlopers.

Expanding their presence on the continent with the justification of spreading Civilization and Progress, and extirpating the slave trade, Belgium and France proceeded to brutally compel native populations to work, at gun point, without renumeration, to death. Nor were they alone in committing genocides, in suppressing native unrest.

Meanwhile in Liberia, 1925 marks the arrival of business titan Harvey Firestone, whose company has played a leading role in Liberia ever since. The country would be an aberration. Like a lonely sea stack, the tide of European imperialism would wash around it for it would be shielded by its connection with the United States.

[Alister]

Section 8, just a morsel missing:

116@18:56
the world's largest producer of cocoa. And Nigeria rapidly becoming a competitor. Nothing could better demonstrate the folly of Leopold's

Done. New Length 30:30

[DrSpoke]

Done. New Length 30:30

Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4: ploked, sploked and ready!

[redrun]

Alright! I'll be able to begin cataloging this evening.

[redrun]

And without further ado:

This project is now complete. All audio files can be found in our catalog:
https://librivox.org/imperialism-and-world-politics-part-1-of-4-by-parker-thomas-moon/

Congratulations on another successfully completed book!

[Alister]

Thanks redrun!

I love the way you linked both texts on the title page. Nice.

[redrun]

I'm glad! I did have to wrangle some of the other formatting - chaptef titles are particularly fussy about special characters - but I hope that all came out as well!