I would like some reccomended reading for a University project based on imperialism and the debt owed by western "advanced" society to the third world. I already have the basics — Lenin, Fanon, Liberalism - A Counter History, Inglorious Empire, Late Victorian Holocausts and How Europe Underdeveloped Africa — so i'm looking more towards how the people and societies of the first world got so rich, rather than the details of the crimes of empires (but both are good). The books don't have to be by leftists, but obviously it would be preferred. Thanks.

  • thethirdgracchi [he/him, they/them]
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    4 years ago

    These are very historical, but that's kind of what you want.

    • therainbowplague [she/her]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      Brilliant, thank you! Very much sounds like what I am looking for - I will check them out.

  • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century by John Smith

    Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism by Kwame Nkrumha

  • therainbowplague [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    Fuck, I should have been more specific. I am not looking for 20/21st century imperialism, but much more so in the 18th and 19th centuries.

  • Shishnarfne [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    An interesting perspective, though perhaps a little bit outside of the scope of your research would be Ha-Joon Chang's Bad Samaritans. It's not really about imperialism, but about economic development. Chang looks at the policies rich countries used to become high productivity industrialized societies, and then shows that this is the exact opposite of what IMF, World Bank etc. demand from poor countries.