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Imperialism and World Politics, Part 2 of 4, by Parker Thomas Moon (1892 - 1936)

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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 at least 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 then he at the time, perhaps, might have credited.


THIS IS PART TWO OF FOUR.

In this part, Moon starts by briefly covering the Anglo-German contention over East Africa, French designs on the island of Madagascar and Italy’s foray into the Horn of Africa to establish the colony of ‘Somaliland’.

His telling then reaches “a natural sequel… to events which have unfolded themselves in preceding chapters.” The jealous contest over Abyssinia and Sudan. For “nowhere did visions of empire struggle for mastery with a greater intensity of conflict or a more colourful wealth of spectacular incident.”

As Moon tellingly remarks, “Imperialism is rarely active against a formidable foe.” Britain conquered an Egypt riven by civil war in 1882—just in time to be sucked into the budding jihad in Sudan waged in defence of the Arab slave trade and in rejection of khedival rule. The British response to the Mahdists went from feckless to quite feeble. Unwilling to act themselves after a string of embarrassing disasters, Britain sought simply – for a decade-and-a-half – to play Italian ambitions off against French designs.

This precipitated the dramatic events of the First Italo-Abyssinian War, and French largess in training and munitions conferred upon Menelik’s forces helped to tip the scales—toward a decisive Italian defeat.

Moon next profiles Cecil Rhodes and takes us into South Africa. Next into the violence and cunning which abided in Europe’s near abroad, the “smiling and temperate coastlands” of North Africa, where France, Spain, Italy, Germany and Britain squabble over pounds of Ottoman, Algerian and Moroccan flesh.

Finally, this part concludes with a survey of Near Eastern ‘Questions’ and, also, an exploration of the anxiety that Russia’s creeping southward expansion exercised on the British halls of power, and its effects on India’s periphery.
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DPL-ship reserved for DrSpoke :)
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Alister wrote: April 17th, 2024, 11:48 pm DPL-ship reserved for DrSpoke :)
Sir DrSpoke will certainly be in the team.
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And not Dame DrSpoke? :hmm:
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Alister wrote: April 18th, 2024, 5:28 am And not Dame DrSpoke? :hmm:
Well, I know, but that was the title for the "good" deeds.. Besides, I'm not keen on being a dame.
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I will MC this for you. MW is all set to go. I shortened up the filename a little; easier on me in my file folder.
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KiltedDragon wrote: April 21st, 2024, 12:52 pm I will MC this for you. MW is all set to go. I shortened up the filename a little; easier on me in my file folder.
Thanks, KiltedDragon :)
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Hello! What an interesting, uncomplicated chapter! But, could you please get Kenya’s governor back to the recording machine? Unless he is too busy with a hat&tux tax cut, while freelancing as a consultant on restriction of immigration policies and private companies' debt financing?

132@24:04 – missing chunk underlined:
an aristocracy of European landowners," in the words of Sir Charles Eliot , first governor of the colony. Eliot maintained very frankly that " the interior of the Protectorate is a white man's country, and it is mere hypocrisy not to admit that white interests must be paramount , and the main object of our policy and legislation should be to found a white colony. But the success
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I've done some research into the area some years back in relation to a project. And one of the interesting dynamics in Tanganyika is actually the disruptive effects that modern firearms had, combined with the longstanding Arab Slave Trade, before European colonizers even showed up.

Firearms didn't make the locals much better able to resist Europeans - they had transformed an already brutal and fractured area into a bloodbath. There were larger statelets coalescing around inland warlords, so that might have changed, but. . . ultimately firearms made them a softer target in the short run.

I'm frankly surprised he didn't devote any attention to the slave trade out of Zanzibar which was the vehicle of the slave trade, and in some ways a regional colonizing power itself. There was at least one deep inland slave entrepot I've come across run by a collection of Arab families out of Zanzibar so yeah. . . Assertions that Zanzibar didn't have penetration into the East African hinterland are laughable.

Post-colonially Arab elites sidestepped back into power in some East African states, only to come to a Bad End because the majority had no patience for their bullshit, viewed them no differently than the Europeans and... because assault rifles were a thing and due to the Cold War, Africa was swimming in Russian arms.
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PL correction uploading. Mr Eliot had time for me, after I greased the right palms. Which is to say, not the coconut palms. Mr Eliot would just order his gardener to do it if he, for some reason, wanted those palms greased.
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♠~♠~♠~♠~♠~♠~♠ P.S. not a facey; more like Two meeting at a sharing point - an ungreased coconut palm? ♥
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Alister wrote: May 1st, 2024, 4:50 pm I've done some research into the area some years back in relation to a project [...]
Thanks a lot Alister. It would be worthwhile if you could at some point cook a "Sue shorty" with this kind of material.

- section 1 sploked _
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Here is Section 02 - Length 51:02

https://librivox.org/uploads/kilteddragon/imperialismworldpoliticspart2_02_moon_128kb.mp3

Parker Thomas Moon sure has an unnatural number of fingers on those hands of his! 🙃

Anyway. Spoiler alert regarding those guarantees; Within a decade of this being published, Italy invaded Ethiopia again.

There is a podcast here - excellently put together (I'm seriously jealous here) though not apolitical - which covers how it all turned out, if you are looking for something else to listen to.
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Alister wrote: May 9th, 2024, 4:29 am (I'm seriously jealous here)
But please, when you will run your "touché" podcast channel be tougher on yourself when tempted by the putting together (pieces of) history for personal narrative.
Very interesting though; and always good to be reminded that when news broadcasting is silenced, particularly during episodes of territory and people(s) trampling, it's reasonable to start wondering.
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