Colonialism
Essays

Joseph Conrad was born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857. He was born in Poland but did not spend a long time there as his family was exiled to Russia in 1862. His politically active parents died when he was young.

BWA was faced with costly delays in a construction project in Indonesia. The firm's manager on the scene, Jared Campbell, attempted to alleviate the problem through negotiation but could only achieve a proposed $1…

In "The Clash of Civilizations," Samuel P. Huntington claims that cultural differences will be the greatest source of conflict in the 21st century world: more so than economics or political ideology.

What qualities that Max Gottlieb represents which influence Martin Arrowsmith? Gottlieb is portrayed as a brainy research scientist who is, for the most part, above the petty politics and posturing of those who use…

While it is generally regarded as true that developing countries offer more biodiversity than developed ones, and that the developed countries are not particularly receptive to 'native' products, there are exceptions.

Imperialism and Imagining the Racial 'Other'

A number of different factors would conspire to make popular culture into a new and different thing in eighteenth-century Britain. There had been popular culture before the eighteenth century, of course: Shakespeare's…

Apocalypse Now Redux and the Heart of Darkness

One issue that has come to the surface in recent discussions of race in America is the issue of Slavery Reparations. This is essentially the idea that modern descendents of American slaves should receive some form of…

Jack Weatherford's 1988 book Indian Givers: How Native Americans Transformed the World, described the many contributions that the Native peoples of the Americas have made to world civilization from the 16th Century to the present, which have generally been ignored by mainstream academics and the general public.