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Yet there are grounds for optimism. Australian High Commissioner Leslie W. Johnson points out that because of its fractionalization, no single tribe dominates even one region. The new nation has a good Australian-trained police and an army recruited from all over the country. Already an exporter of copper and...
On the eve of the French takeover in the 1860's Vietnam was an integrated traditional society. The basic social unit was the village, which for the most part functioned autonomously, with strict direction from the imperial government in Hue. Peasants tilled their plots of rice land and participated in...
THEN THE French came to Southeast Asia. The Vietnamese resisted, but the French seized the southern third of Vietnam in 1864 and extended their control to the center and north by 1885. By the turn of the century, Vietnam was firmly under French control; the imperial court was tolerated merely...
Although it had other roots as well, the Zionist movement grew primarily out of life in imperial Russia. Restrictions on their geographic settlement and economic activity, as well as a religion and language of their own, made the Jews of Russia and Czarist Poland almost a nation, separate from the...
Last month's Dump Truck presented a series of articles on superpower imperialism. The different perspectives tried to trace the changing ways in which the world's most powerful nations established empires. Although complex networks of financial, political, and cultural institutions have replaced colonial governments as common agents of imperial...