POLB90H3 Chapter Notes -Frantz Fanon, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz
2 Jan 2014
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Promises not kept (chapter 4) john ibster. Implied in their conviction that the third world is societies are traditional is the view that imperialism had few lasting effects and certainly did not transform the third world in any fundamental way. o o. For marxists and dependency theorists, the history of imperialism is critical in understanding the third world and its poverty today. It is a current common denominator of the third world: at times imperialism was marked by the dominance of a single european country, at times by competition among several. o. It features massive overseas settlement, administrative and military control in other, and informal economic domination in still others. The first period of imperialism followed the voyages of discovery. The soldiers were followed by friars, whose sacred mission it was to salvage souls who succeeded at the expense of wiping out whole cultures.
