item: #1 of 9 id: 10755 author: Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) title: The Broken Road date: None words: 99166 flesch: 90 summary: Shere Ali half rose in his seat. Moreover, wherever the cliffs seemed likely to afford a means of ascent Shere Ali had directed the water-channels, and since the nights were frosty these points were draped with ice as smooth as glass. keywords: ahmed; chiltistan; colonel; come; day; dewes; dick; door; end; english; eyes; face; good; great; hand; head; highness; house; india; ismail; khan; kohara; letter; life; linforth; look; luffe; man; men; mind; moment; mrs; night; oliver; people; peshawur; phillips; ralston; road; room; shere ali; sir; smile; thought; time; trouble; violet; voice; way; white; words; years cache: 10755.txt plain text: 10755.txt item: #2 of 9 id: 16542 author: Adams, Charles Francis title: "Imperialism" and "The Tracks of Our Forefathers" date: None words: 13675 flesch: 56 summary: As regards Pauper Labor, indeed, the reversal contemplated of established policy in favor of European methods is specially noteworthy. On these principles of government and of foreign policy we have as a people now acted for more than seventy years. keywords: american; britain; case; course; england; european; government; historical; history; mexico; new; people; policy; principles; race; time; world; years cache: 16542.txt plain text: 16542.txt item: #3 of 9 id: 30710 author: Cramb, J. A. (John Adam) title: The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe date: None words: 71006 flesch: 59 summary: The Ruines of Rome_ has made familiar, were written after a visit to Rome in attendance upon the Cardinal du Bellay, and first published in 1558. Songe sur Rome_ accompanied them. keywords: action; age; battle; britain; carlyle; cause; centuries; century; character; conception; conflict; consciousness; cromwell; dead; death; destiny; divine; earth; empire; end; energy; england; english; europe; faith; fall; fate; form; france; freedom; french; future; genius; god; great; heart; hellas; history; hope; hour; ideal; imperial; imperialism; individual; justice; law; life; light; man; men; modern; napoleon; nation; nature; past; peace; people; period; politics; power; present; principle; question; race; religion; revolution; roman; rome; soul; spain; spirit; state; things; thought; time; unity; vision; war; wars; work; world; years cache: 30710.txt plain text: 30710.txt item: #4 of 9 id: 33153 author: Weyl, Walter E. (Walter Edward) title: American World Policies date: None words: 92374 flesch: 56 summary: By war nations may secure markets, access to raw materials, better opportunities for investment and a firm basis for industrial progress; they may cripple troublesome competitors; they may exact indemnities. {55} CHAPTER V FACING OUTWARD While the imperialistic venture of 1898 was premature and did not lead, as had been expected, to a conscious participation of America in the international scramble for colonies, it affected our national thinking and forced us to re-consider the position of America in relation to the ambitions and plans of other great nations. keywords: america; britain; british; capital; cent; china; colonial; colonies; commerce; competition; conditions; control; countries; country; day; development; end; england; europe; european; export; fight; food; force; foreign; france; french; future; germany; home; imperialism; increase; industrial; industry; interest; international; investment; life; markets; means; military; millions; nations; new; peace; people; policy; population; power; present; problem; progress; resources; result; russia; sense; states; trade; united; united states; war; wars; wealth; work; world; world war; years; york cache: 33153.txt plain text: 33153.txt item: #5 of 9 id: 37792 author: Desjardins, L. G. (Louis Georges) title: England, Canada and the Great War date: None words: 98138 flesch: 51 summary: From the above last quotation, I have the right to infer that Mr. Bourassa is very sorry that, in war times like those we have seen since July 1914, British naval supremacy is sufficiently paramount to protect the United Kingdom from starvation, to keep the coasts of France opened to the mercantile ships of the Allies and of all the neutral nations, to rule the waves against both the German military and mercantile fleets, chased away from the oceans by the British guns thundering at the Teutonic pirates on land and sea. Whatever shall be the final settlement of all the difficult matters brought up for solution by the war, it is certain that the management of the world's affairs will be well served by the legitimate influence of great nations whose leadership will be beneficial just in proportion as it is itself directed by the true principles of political Freedom, and an uncompromising respect of the rights of weaker nations always entitled to the fairest dealings on the part of their stronger associates in the great commonwealth of Sovereign States. keywords: allies; belgium; bourassa; britain; british; british empire; canada; canadian; cause; colonies; conditions; conflict; country; course; day; duty; empire; england; france; french; future; general; germany; good; government; great; imperial; imperialism; justice; leader; military; nationalist; nations; new; opinion; parliament; peace; people; power; present; public; question; right; south; sovereign; states; time; united; war; world; years cache: 37792.txt plain text: 37792.txt item: #6 of 9 id: 38535 author: Angell, Norman title: The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage date: None words: 115185 flesch: 55 summary: Within the first week of the declaration of war Germany would have suffered a loss of many million pounds by the capture of her ships. The English conquest of great military nations is a physical impossibility, and it would involve the collapse of the principle upon which the Empire is based if it were. keywords: advantage; american; book; britain; british; case; change; chapter; colonies; conflict; conquest; country; course; day; defence; empire; england; english; europe; european; fact; force; france; french; general; germany; government; great; history; human; interest; law; life; london; matter; means; men; military; modern; money; moral; national; nations; nature; operation; peace; people; physical; point; policy; population; position; power; present; progress; question; real; result; right; social; states; struggle; things; time; trade; view; war; way; wealth; work; world; years cache: 38535.txt plain text: 38535.txt item: #7 of 9 id: 41405 author: Luxemburg, Rosa title: The Accumulation of Capital date: None words: 177493 flesch: 53 summary: But the consumption by the organs of the capitalist state has no bearing on the realisation of _capitalised_ surplus value, because the additional surplus value for this consumption--even though it comes about at the workers' expense--is created afterwards. (The concept of _value_ now becomes treacherous, for the _value_ of commodities is continuously falling.) keywords: accumulation; aggregate; analysis; british; capital; capital accumulation; capitalist; case; circulation; class; commodities; commodity production; commodity surplus; conditions; consumer; consumption; countries; country; course; crises; demand; department; department ii; development; diagram; economy; european; exchange; exchange value; expansion; fact; following; form; general; goods; great; hand; ibid; income; increase; individual; industry; labour; labour power; land; market; marx; material; means; money; money capital; new; order; place; point; problem; process; produce; production; production ii; products; profit; quantity; question; rate; ricardo; rodbertus; second; simple; sismondi; smith; social; society; state; surplus means; surplus product; surplus value; system; theory; time; total; use; variable; view; vol; volume; wages; way; workers; working; year cache: 41405.txt plain text: 41405.txt item: #8 of 9 id: 526 author: Conrad, Joseph title: Heart of Darkness date: None words: 39036 flesch: 85 summary: This was simple prudence, white men being so much alike at a distance that he could not tell who I might be. White men with long staves in their hands appeared languidly from amongst the buildings, strolling up to take a look at me, and then retired out of sight somewhere. keywords: air; black; course; darkness; day; earth; eyes; feet; good; head; house; ivory; kind; kurtz; left; life; look; man; manager; men; moment; pilgrims; right; river; silence; station; thing; thought; time; voice; water; way; white; work cache: 526.txt plain text: 526.txt item: #9 of 9 id: 720 author: Conrad, Joseph title: Almayer's Folly: A Story of an Eastern River date: None words: 63776 flesch: 80 summary: Nina Almayer came through the curtained doorway followed by an old Malay woman, who busied herself in setting upon the table a plateful of rice and fish, a jar of water, and a bottle half full of genever. Almayer in his quality of white man--as Lingard before him--had somewhat better relations with the up-river tribes. keywords: abdulla; ali; almayer; babalatchi; canoe; dain; daughter; day; eyes; face; father; girl; great; half; hand; head; heart; house; lakamba; life; light; look; man; master; men; mrs; nina; rajah; river; round; sambir; saw; table; thought; time; tuan; verandah; voice; water; way; white; woman; words cache: 720.txt plain text: 720.txt