The Case for Colonialism

Description

“For the last hundred years, Western colonialism has had a bad name.” So began Professor Bruce Gilley’s watershed academic article “The Case for Colonialism” of 2017. The article sparked a global furor. Critics and defenders of Gilley’s argument battled it out in the court of public opinion. The Times of London described Gilley as “probably the academic most likely to be no-platformed in Britain.” The New York Times called him one of the “panicky white bros” who “proclaim ever more rowdily that the (white) West was, and is, best” and are “busy recyclers of Western supremacism.” In this book, Gilley responds to the critics and elaborates on the case for colonialism. The critics have no evidence for their claims, he asserts. The case for colonialism is robust no matter which colonizer or colonized area one examines. Patient, empirical, humorous, and not a little exasperated by anti-colonial ideologues, Gilley here sets a challenge for the next generation of scholars of colonialism. “It is time to make the case for colonialism again,” he writes.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Bruce Gilley
Published: 11/14/2023
Publisher: World Encounter Institute/New English Review
ISBN: 9781943003907
Pages: 326
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 0.68″ H x 9.00″ L x 6.00″ W

About the Author
Gilley, Bruce: – Bruce Gilley is a professor of political science at Portland State University and a member of the board of the National Association of Scholars. His previous books on colonialism are The Last Imperialist and In Defense of German Colonialism.