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To: Chuzzlewit who wrote (33227)	3/24/1999 2:42:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 108807

I don't believe that these were major factors in the first part of the 19th century. True. Also true that in the first part of the 19th century the British industrial capacity was far ahead of ours. The US did not begin to close the gap until the late 19th century (reduction of the southern states to colonial status was a real factor), and did not really pull ahead until the early 20th century, at which point the factors I mentioned were becoming decisive. Don't you mean his essays on the Hawaiian Islands (aka the Sandwich Islands)? Twain wrote extensively against the American involvement in the Philippines, though few of the works are now read. More American soldiers died in the Philippines between 1898 and 1908 than in the Spanish-American and Mexican-American wars combined. Estimates of Filipino casualties range from 200,000 to 2,000,000: census figures for the populous province of Batangas show the population of the province reduced by a third in the course of the fighting. Concentration camps and scorched-earth tactics were widely employed. Few American history texts even acknowledge that the conflict took place, and very few Americans - even relatively well educated ones - are aware that the country was once an American colony. The history of colonialism may be well studied in the sense that a great deal of academic research has been done, and a large body of written material exists. Very little of this, though, has found its way into the mainstream western consciousness, and this in my view is a major reason why the third world is so poorly understood in the west. How many of the students who studied the wars of 17th-19th century Europe in loving detail ever stopped to ask whence came the money that subsidized these follies. Very few who read Trollope or Wilde stop and wonder how the British aristocracy managed to live in such stupendous splendour despite the limited resources and population of their little island.

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