Tsukada, Christianity under Japanese Imperialism

Commercial Imperialism?

We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries’ decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and supporting leaders during the Cold War. Our presumption is that the US had greater influence over foreign l...

Imperialism: Political Aspects

Said E W 1993 Culture and Imperialism. Chatto & Windus, London Seton-Watson H 1961 The New Imperialism. Bodley Head, London Stokes E 1969 Late nineteenth-century colonial expansion and the attack on the theory of economic imperialism: A case of mistaken identity. Historical Journal 12: 285–301 Wehler H-U 1969 Bismarck und der Imperialismus. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne, Germany Wesseling H L 1...

Mäki on Economics Imperialism

This paper reviews Uskali Mäki’s epistemic analysis of economics imperialism formulated in terms of the science unification ideal and the three constraints on imperialism he develops. It then examines the phenomenon of ‘reverse imperialism’ associated with the influence of other fields on economics especially since 1980, and advances a core-periphery model of the identity of economics as a fiel...

Christianity after Freud

Monotheism. The author, in a very convincing and logically sound way, uses Freud's argument to prove the Christian case, but starting from theistic instead of the atheistic major premise. The sections dealing with original sin, and the dispute as to whether it was due to sexuality or pride and aggression, are unusually interesting. This book and Freud and Christianity*, by R. S. Lee, M.A., D.Ph...

Christianity and Popular Culture