Hans Rasmussen uses archival material from LSU Library's special collections to examine how and why nineteenth-century-Americans celebrated Louis Kossuth, an anti-Russian-imperialism activist, their behavior resembles pro-Volodymyr Zelensky sentiment today.

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...

Political science and economic science … make use of the same language, the same mode of abstraction, the same instruments of thought and the same method of reasoning (Black 1998, p. 354). Economics imperialism refers to the application of (mainstream) economic methods to the study of phenomena outside the traditional domain of economics. Uskali Mäki (forthcoming) has recently presented a typol...

Two features of the capitalist world economy in the early years of the new century must be noted at the outset. The first is the continuing, indeed overwhelming, significance of imperialism as the defining feature of global economic relations, with imperialism broadly defined as the struggle by large capital over control over economic territory of various types. The second is that this current ...

John Hobson’s theory of Imperialism has remarkable relevance for contemporary relations between the United States and Asia/Europe. A reconstruction of his argument shows that whereas the Bretton Woods period presents Hobson’s preferred non-imperial outcome, this outcome was not stable. Instead, the dynamics that brought about Imperialism in the first place eroded Bretton Woods and returned us t...

Abstract Viewing the historical development of Chinese Christianity, this chapter argues that, far from being a static concept, nationalism has constantly been constructed and interpreted. Subject to different political economic contexts, patriotism Christians taken various forms. From early twentieth century until 1950s, their was primarily anti-imperialist. Following Communist Party’s assumpt...

Contemporary scholars of Roman imperialism have discussed the ways in which ancient historians denigrate non-Romans and thereby present intellectual justifications for Roman conquest. This paper offers a case study that questions this position's validity: an examination of Sallust's Epistula Mithridatis (Hist. 4.69M) and Pompeius Trogus' speech of Mithridates (Justin 38.4-7). I argue that Sallu...