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...ia Company ‘It is the strangest of all governments but it is designed for the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 160... ... by some of the more conservative Indian rulers, that the British sent their young Indian princes overseas to be educated in our schools and univers...

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... type of mythological, hybrid animal he was in the process of taking on an overseas journey. How quickly she had gone from seductress to a callow cal... ...den is so rich it isn't inequality that he hates. Tyrants like building up empires but he doesn't seem to want one-- just wants to destroy the west. ...

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...Laura Kate O'Connell left her life of excitement as an overseas news correspondent to return to her Georgia hometown to raise her two young cousins. When Royce Lee, Laura Kate's attorney, supposedly commits suicide, too many pieces of evidence tell a different story. Her instinct...

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...y could figure.” “Who knows with men and women? Royce changed in the years I was overseas and I wonder, can a woman change a man that much?” ... ...school at Duke University. As scion to the Hartwell family’s media and agricultural empires, there was no question of him following his lover. And ... ...t a face that was alive with a vitality he hadn’t seen since she returned home from overseas. It was he who sent the telegram with the bad news of ...

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...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...e most atrocious link in a long chain of brutalities inflicted by American soldiers overseas, the latest of which are taking place in Iraq. In all t... ...stinguishes four phases of distension: "First, continental expansion stage; second, overseas expansion stage; third, the stage of global contention ... ...rnold Toynbee, the distinguished historian correctly observed that the last days of empires are characterized by grandiose construction schemes, far... ...powers: world opinion and global capital. But first, Rome. The disintegration of empires is rarely the outcome of merely one or more external sho... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...rgest investor. The situation is not much different in the Czech Republic where the overseas sales of the German-owned Skoda alone account for one ... ...s sales in these parched lands have plummeted by 10 percent in 2002 alone. Pepsi's overseas sales flattened due to Arabs shunning its elixirs. Amer...

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...he more awe-inspiring because their financial history is limited to bull markets." Overseas - mainly European - selling was an important factor. So... ...ontext Housing and financial crises often precede, or follow the disintegration of empires. The dissolution of the Habsburg and the British empires... ...l Conference, the authors wrote: "Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of both overseas aid and the 'conditionality' employed by donors to incr... ...ften associated with credit-insatiable emerging economies, failed states, erstwhile empires, developing countries and polities in transition. Signs...

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... from having access to them). Build up "political capital" with government bodies; overseas, get "protection" from "the host government". 'Vertical... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ... torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typically degenerate into an abyss of corruption, megalo... ... The annals of both Rome and Britain teach us that, as democracy grows entrenched, empires disintegrate fitfully. Rome chose to keep its empire by ... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...s it from external and internal threats. Social structures and human collectives - empires, countries, firms, bands, institutions - often commit su... ...d unsustainably in the developed nations of the world. This caused a shift of jobs overseas to less regulated and cheaper locations (offshoring and... ...purposes and excludes competitors (such as migrant workers, non-unionized labor, or overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals). Increase "... ...re what matters. Organized labor regards migrant workers, non-unionized labor, and overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals as the "compe...

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... from having access to them). Build up "political capital" with government bodies; overseas, get "protection" from "the host government". 'Vertical... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ... torture, illegal confinement, assassinations, and collusion with organized crime. Empires typically degenerate into an abyss of corruption, megalo... ... The annals of both Rome and Britain teach us that, as democracy grows entrenched, empires disintegrate fitfully. Rome chose to keep its empire by ... ... its republic. Britain chose to democratize by letting go of its unwieldy holdings overseas. Both polities failed to uphold their erstwhile social ... ...s it from external and internal threats. Social structures and human collectives - empires, countries, firms, bands, institutions - often commit su... ...d unsustainably in the developed nations of the world. This caused a shift of jobs overseas to less regulated and cheaper locations (offshoring and... ...purposes and excludes competitors (such as migrant workers, non-unionized labor, or overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals). Increase "... ...re what matters. Organized labor regards migrant workers, non-unionized labor, and overseas labor in offshoring and outsourcing deals as the "compe...

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..., being absent from their own families. Where do you think the custom of All Empires neglecting their own colonies, and leaving them to fend for the... ...erally; all the war-like Zulus and Bantus, the Masai and Swahili’s that ruled empires in Africa before the White Man came were nomadic herders. Fo... ...e to be had. That is the fate of all long-term advantage and dominance which Empires suffer from. It weakens the culture you live in, it weakens yo... ...yles lasted until the 14 th - 16th Centuries with the end of the last Mongol empires. This was all an inevitable dynamic of overpopulation. I... ... banned was that the American chemical companies by then had found enough new overseas markets; that the American DDT market was no longer crucial t... ...hed, and made attractive. The battles of colonial empire-building were fought overseas. The Europeans did not have to face the actual costs of thei... ...g company The Crown took over the fort and it became an official an English overseas colony instead of a dirty get-rich-quick scheme that fell thr... ...and how long it took to make any money from it. So he tried to sell his idea overseas. But the British did not bite. They had learned that lesson... ...t American advertising campaign. The first selling of America as a total lie overseas. The War of Independence was fought over money. The Americ...

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...al Conference, the authors wrote: "Empirical evidence on the effectiveness of both overseas aid and the 'conditionality' employed by donors to inc... ...ntly established African Trade Insurance Agency or the more veteran American OPIC (Overseas Private Investment Corporation), the British ECGD, and ... ...nother 30 cases. Britain has persecuted successfully only one of its officials for overseas bribery since 1889. In the Netherlands bribery is tax d... ... glacially. The polities of central and eastern Europe were always constituents of empires - reluctantly or by choice. In some ways they are better...

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...r yield nothing? Are we governed by destiny? Many of my opportunities for overseas study proved fruitless, despite my hard work. This seems to be a ... ...t mediocre people ask for trouble.) A root cause of the decline of all empires (None of them lasted, and they will never last indefinitely.) is t...

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..., C. M. and A. H. Niehoff. 1964. Introducing Social Change: A Manual for Americans Overseas. Chicago: Aldine. Aspinwall, Leo V. 1962. "The Character... ...g."Public Opinion Quarterly 38, 548-61. Polanyi, K., C. Arsenberg and H. Pearson. Empires. Glencoe, Ill. : Free Press. Pol1ay, Richard W. 1968. " A...

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...ren probably yearned to grow out of their age and adults dreamed of business empires, a corporate legacy from which to defy mortality. She knew that i... ...us tripped over itself directionlessly. But a week into contacting long-term overseas customers to advertise new cosmetics, reestablish relationships ...

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...e House, by the clash of political parties, by interferences with American overseas trade and the security of American citizens. He has no more time t... ... principle of conscription not only to her sons but to the property of her overseas investors and of her landed proprietors. She has not even looked y... ...at export trade which, in the case of Great Britain at least, now that her overseas investments have been set off by overseas war debts, is essential ... ... eternal things, but they are far more permanent things than any rulers or empires; they are rooted to the ground by a peasantry, by a physical and te... ...ity, and that there will be a gravita- tion of all other arrangements, all empires and leagues and 104 What Is Coming? what not, towards this rationa... ...now only an exploiter’s cant. The age of “expansion,” the age of European “empires” is near its end. No one who can read the signs of the times in Jap... ... even in Africa the end draws near. Spain has but led the way which other “empires” must fol- low. Look at her empire in the atlases of 1800. She fell... ...ly to come. 129 H G Wells Now there are, roughly speaking, three types of overseas “possessions.” They may be either (1) territory that was origi- na... ...by comparison simple and plain. And so the discussion of the future of the overseas “em- pires” brings us again to the same realisation to which the d...

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...se of the war was fairly lucky; the forecast of an alliance of the Central Empires, the opening campaign through the Neth- erlands, and the despatch o... ... of scientific knowledge, separate sovereign states and separate sovereign empires are no longer possible in the world, that to attempt to keep on wit... ...alleys of the Nile, the Euphrates, and the great Chinese rivers, the first empires and the first written laws had their beginnings. Men specialised fo... ...pathy. There were great religious and moral changes throughout the period, empires and republics re- placed one another, Italy tried a vast experiment... ... human affairs on the part of some one particular state. The memory of the empires of Rome and Alexander squatted, an unlaid carnivo- rous ghost, in t... ...untry was suffering much more than France, because of the cessation of the overseas supplies on which it had hith- erto relied. His troops were given ...

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...ne-bell is ringing madly, and Kings are being killed on the Continent, and Empires are saying, “You’re another,” and Mister Gladstone is calling down ... ...cording and reporting the better for the peace of the subscribers. But the Empires and the Kings continue to divert themselves as selfishly as before,... ...med seas. He had led his hero a desperate dance through revolt against the overseas, to command of a ship of his own, and ultimate establishment of a ...

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...ations flew in her harbour, and at the climax, the yearly coming and going overseas num- bered together upwards of two million human beings. To Europe... ...der its influence, the spacious antagonism of na- 231 H G Wells tions and empires and races vanished in a seething mass of detailed conflict. The wor... ...mine and Pestilence are discovered triumphant below. The great nations and empires have become but names in the mouths of men. Everywhere there are ru...

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...mpty continents swarm, as at the bo’s’un’s whistle, with in- dustrious hands, and whole new empires are domesticated to the service of man. This is th... ...ation, and for all of them, and drink first and foremost, this trick of getting transported overseas appears to me the silliest means of cure. You can...

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...ction to the Categori- cal Imperative?” (They talked as though the fate of empires were in the balance.) “It suggests that one can choose one’s course... ...sed father , and the young man had gone out to bear the White Man’s Burden overseas. The imagination of another , a lad who had never before been in a...

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...cts than do the learned men of England. They collect facts, and facts, and empires of facts. But which of them will rekindle the light within?” To all... ... “Some one’s got to go,” he said simply. England will never keep her trade overseas unless she is pre- pared to make sacrifices. Unless we get firm in... ...e door that concealed the stairs. Now she thought of the map of Africa; of empires; of her father; of the two supreme nations, streams of whose life w... ...and family ties, what do you suppose happens to thousands of young fellows overseas? Isolated. No one near. I know by bitter expe- rience, and yet you... ...tation to acclaim it as a super-yeo- man, who carries his country’s virtue overseas. But the Imperialist is not what he thinks or seems. He is a destr...

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... generalising influences and of wider relevancies. And the oscillations of empires and kingdoms, religious movements, wars, invasions, settlements lea... ...ction, the peasant population wanes before the large farm, the estate, and overseas production. Now most of the political and social discussion of the... ... matter, because India and our other vast areas of service and opportunity overseas drain away a large proportion of just those able and educated men ... ...re acres of railway sidings than of public parks in Greater London—and our Overseas cousins find it ticklish work crossing Regent Street and Piccadill...

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...onal existence. One hears, too, of the sacred principle of Free T rade, of Empires and Zollvereins, and the Rights of the Parent to blockade the educa... ... us off from the nobility of our past, from the severed masses of our race overseas, far more effectually than any growth of neologisms. A language ma... ...istence. Tribes have aggregated into nations, nations have aggregated into empires, and then, after a struggle, has come a great confusion of thought,... ...areas that were convenient in the Babylonian, ancient Egyp- tian, or Roman empires were no larger and no smaller than those that served the purpose of...

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...ted William Jennings Bryan, but the campaign issue was American expansionism overseas. Chief Justice Melville Fuller administered the oath of office o... ...Europe have fought their bloodiest wars. Thrones have toppled and their vast empires have dis appeared. New nations have been born. INAUGURAL ADDRESS...