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Quotes from The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics — Bruce Gilley

born 1966 United States

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One main challenge of this research is to properly enumerate the things that matter and then to assign them weights, weights that presumably varied with time and place.

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics (2017)

Eminent scholars repeatedly make the logically contradictory claim that colonialism was both too disruptive and not disruptive enough.

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics (2017)

At least in the initial phases, legitimacy will be demonstrated not by the holding of a plebiscite or by the support of organized and broadly representative groups but simply by the ability of the intervening state to win compliance from key actors and get the job done.

The Case for Colonialism: A Response to My Critics (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bruce Gilley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.