"A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution" (London, Robinson, 1797)
"A View of the Causes and Consequences of the American Revolution" (London, Robinson, 1797)
“During the colonial epoch, the British forced Africans to sing”
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972)
Obsessive gambling is now regarded as a mental illness - but, argues Theodore Dalrymple, does that not mean that the Disability Discrimination Act makes it illegal for bookies to discriminate against obsessive gamblers by banning them from their shops? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001721.php (February 19, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)
Source: Sociology For The South: Or The Failure Of A Free Society (1854), p. 170
On the decision to proclaim independence from British rule, which was made on 2 July 1776, in a letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776), published in The Adams Papers: Adams Family Correspondence (2007) edited by Margaret A. Hogan
1770s
“A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.”
Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Joseph Pearce
Misattributed
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part II: Years of Prosperity
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 47
“Freedom is the name of virtue: Slavery, of vice…. None is a slave whose acts are free.”
Fragment x.
Golden Sayings of Epictetus, Fragments
Source: How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1972), p. 373.
Context: Finally, attention must be drawn to one of the most important consequences of colonialism on African development, and that is the stunting effect on Africans as a physical species. Colonialism created conditions which led not just to periodic famine but to chronic undernourishment, malnutrition, and deterioration in the physique of the African people. If such a statement sounds wildly extravagant, it is only because bourgeois propaganda has conditioned even Africans to believe that malnutrition and starvation were the natural lot of Africans from time immemorial. A black child with a transparent rib cage, huge head, bloated stomach, protruding eyes, and twigs as arms and legs was the favorite poster of the large British charitable operation known as Oxfam. The poster represented a case of kwashiorkor—extreme malignant malnutrition. Oxfam called upon the people of Europe to save starving African and Asian children from kwashiorkor and such ills. Oxfam never bothered their consciences by telling them that capitalism and colonialism created the starvation, suffering, and misery of the child in the first place. There is an excellent study of the phenomenon of hunger on a world scale by a Brazilian scientist, Josue de Castro. It incorporates considerable data on the food and health conditions among Africans in their independent pre-colonial state or in societies untouched by capitalist pressures; and it then makes comparisons with colonial conditions. The study convincingly indicates that African diet was previously more varied, being based on a more diversified agriculture than was possible under colonialism. In terms of specific nutritional deficiencies, those Africans who suffered most under colonialism were those who were brought most fully into the colonial economy: namely, the urban workers.
