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Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind, by Lewis S. Feuer (Prometheus, 258 pp., $22.95)

For the past hundred years or so, few words in the Western political vocabulary have produced so much froth on the lips as “imperialism.” The unenviable task that Professor Feuer has set himself in this small but learned and provocative book is to reconsider the case against imperialism, and he constructs a powerful critique of antiimperialist theories from Hobson and Lenin to Fanon and Mannoni. The result is a courageous defense of the role of imperialism as an agent of civilizational expansion. “When civilization has moved forward in the past, it has invariably been propelled by a strong imperialist movement on the part of the most advancing society.”

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Imperialism and the Anti-Imperialist Mind, by Lewis S. Feuer (Prometheus, 258 pp., $22.95)

For the past hundred years or so, few words in the Western political vocabulary have produced so much froth on the lips as “imperialism.” The unenviable task that Professor Feuer has set himself in this small but learned and provocative book is to reconsider the case against imperialism, and he constructs a powerful critique of antiimperialist theories from Hobson and Lenin to Fanon and Mannoni. The result is a courageous defense of the role of imperialism as an agent of civilizational expansion. “When civilization has moved forward in the past, it has invariably been propelled by a strong imperialist movement on the part of the most advancing society.”