Article Title

Saving Lives: A First Step Toward Freedom Not Dependence

Authors

William F. Felice, Eckerd College

Abstract

During the nineteenth century, European powers extended and deepened their brutal domination of the so-called “uncivilized” (sic) nations and peoples around the world. These efforts were named “colonialist” and were based on the uprooting of indigenous peoples, the export and pillage of natural resources, cultural displacement, direct political control, and economic exploitation and the creation of dependency by the Europeans. While the European states gained colossal economic benefits from these arrangements, the colonized peoples were left with failed states and bad governments. Advocates of these colonialist policies often justified these actions on the basis of a deep-felt ideological belief in the superior morality of the West and the need to take up the “white man’s burden.”

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Recommended Citation

Felice, William F. (2008) "Saving Lives: A First Step Toward Freedom Not Dependence," Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 8: Iss. 9, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol8/iss9/2