The Journal Of Political Economy 1900 Vol 8 Classic Reprint

Author : Yale University
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334451409
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book The Yale Review, Vol. 8 written by Yale University and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Yale Review, Vol. 8: A Quarterly Journal for the Scientific Discussion of Economic, Political and Social Questions; May, 1899, to February, 1900 Here is something fascinating about building colonial empires. It gives men a sense of power to detach, with a lead pencil, this sphere of in uence, or delimit that hinterland, or take over those islands. The earth seems so small, and its inhabitants as grasshoppers. But the bad quarter of an hour comes when peoples annexed or purchased cease to be numbers, and become men; when they reject the alien civilization thrust upon them, and when punitive expeditions and mobile columns and every variety of petty warfare crowd into the expense account, leaving the empire-builders each year some millions in debt. Empires that grow of themselves are, at least in spots, less unprofitable, but these are of the English or of the Dutch sort, and they have trade as their motive, not the mere glory of governing. Perhaps it is unfair to hint in this way that the French colonies are, to a degree, artificial and costly attempts at empire, for five-sixths of the colonial domain of France is scarcely a generation old. And it was not incapacity for the work of colonization which lost France most of her possessions in the eighteenth century; this loss was a disastrous incident of the European wars of the Bourbon monarchy. Nevertheless the new empire has been an unnecessarily expensive affair, and none more bitterly criticize its management than Frenchmen whose duties or studies give their words a claim to attention. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."