I was always of the opinion that both sides of the colonialism debate were barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. What we are really looking at is the movement of people, and in that paradigm you are either expanding or contracting, civilizationally. So, if your civilization is expanding, you are looking to conquer, and if it is dying off, or at least not as strong as some other group, then you will be conquered, and in turn, might flee, becoming a refugee, which could be its own sort of colonizer.
But, putting it in the context of "decolonization" and its attendant verbiage is an attempt to, ahem, colonize the subject, and turn it into terms that favor certain ideologies'. Did that help dig into a thorny issue? I guess it depends on what someone feels is important about the issue.
The book sounds like a Comedy of Manners, a la Wodehouse. Then again, it might be more melancholy than his works. Maybe I will stumble across it one day, as that is how I find most of my reading materials.
Having now read all the three books I think the first one is the best.
I was always of the opinion that both sides of the colonialism debate were barking up the wrong tree, so to speak. What we are really looking at is the movement of people, and in that paradigm you are either expanding or contracting, civilizationally. So, if your civilization is expanding, you are looking to conquer, and if it is dying off, or at least not as strong as some other group, then you will be conquered, and in turn, might flee, becoming a refugee, which could be its own sort of colonizer.
But, putting it in the context of "decolonization" and its attendant verbiage is an attempt to, ahem, colonize the subject, and turn it into terms that favor certain ideologies'. Did that help dig into a thorny issue? I guess it depends on what someone feels is important about the issue.
The book sounds like a Comedy of Manners, a la Wodehouse. Then again, it might be more melancholy than his works. Maybe I will stumble across it one day, as that is how I find most of my reading materials.