tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post5722997487677947487..comments2024-03-28T09:38:52.661-04:00Comments on thwap's schoolyard: Further to "Late Victorian Holocausts"thwaphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-9991441095291085622008-07-13T22:30:00.000-04:002008-07-13T22:30:00.000-04:00Thanks for the comment Boris. It still surprises ...Thanks for the comment Boris. It still surprises me though, how these Western liberal historians can be so very blind to something like the deaths of 20 million people.<BR/><BR/>They mention the railroads that the British built and say that they mitigated famines, but Davis says there's absolutely no evidence of that; rather, the railroads made the food go all the other way, out of the country towards the ports and on to Europe.<BR/><BR/>Thanks for commenting.thwaphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15399550285738440669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2022452485619502579.post-80313592376060190752008-07-10T23:29:00.000-04:002008-07-10T23:29:00.000-04:00I read LVH years ago - Davis' other works are equa...I read LVH years ago - Davis' other works are equally high calibre. <BR/><BR/>It's not so surprising that this interpretation escapes most history books when you consider much of the history we get from that time was written by the colonial-imperial powers, and not the colonised. I think another element is the complexity of understanding the types of genocide the West participated in. Things like the Holocaust are simple and clearly intended to exterminate a population. The others were externalities to imperial liberal economic models. The idea that these early globalisation models have very negative side effects, like their present incarnations, are unpalatable to so many Westerners.Borishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00952672409601421466noreply@blogger.com