The road to nationalism: Self-Defeating colonialism and the power of high culture
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Summary
In his book The Dynamics of Global Dominance, David B. Abernethy proclaims that imperialistic colonies are, by design, inherently “self-defeating enterprises.” That is, historically as a colony grows and progresses according to the design of its ruling nation, the volatility of that colony increases exponentially no matter how hard the government described by Abernethy, in power tries to maintain social stability within the colony. This is due to the fact that, as imperialistic nations seek to create microcosms of the mother nation in a foreign colony, the metropole inadvertently facilitates the ability of the colony’s indigenous population and its early colonists to break off and form their own nation. Abernethy mentions that a metropole, in its attempts to create an overseas colony, essentially nurtures a society that will eventually find it within itself the need and ability to break off and establish itself as its own, independent nation.
Table of Contents
- Introduction.
- Abernethy's 'Self-Defeating Colonialism?.
- The opportunistic nature of Gellner's Nationalism.
- Decolonization and Gellner's Nationalism.
- Conclusion.
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