Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4

About this film

LibriVox recording of Imperialism and World Politics, Part 1 of 4 by Parker Thomas Moon. Read in English by Alister Moon’s Imperialism and World Politics is perhaps the best-known work of the Columbia University professor and political scientist; It was published in 1926 and did not go out-of-print until after 1940. “What convenient volume,” he asks, exists as a “general account of the greater imperialism of our own times?” A question which was suitably answered by the publication of this sweeping survey of the field. Written in what would prove to be the gathering twilight of European imperialism, and with the inclination towards reflection that only the aftermath of a great catastrophe like the First World War can evoke, this work spans the globe and follows behind Great Britain, France, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Germany, Japan and the United States as they shaped world politics to their own ends—imposing their will on states, economies and peoples. Moon writes of his work that, “It can make no claim to finality.” Indeed, this is surely not the last word on the subject. Not in the past. Not even, truly, in the present. And yet, Moon’s work does possess a greater degree of finality…

Directors & creators

Parker Thomas Moon

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;henry morton stanley; william ewart gladstone; benjamin disraeli; jules ferry; pierre savorgnan de brazza; leopold ii; gustav nachtigal; adolf lüderitz; unilever; firestone tire and rubber company

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