全球化寡头垄断的出现，不可能消除资本主义竞争，因为竞争和垄断永远是相伴随的，竞争就是你死我活的斗争，就是不断地攫取垄断地位；没有一定的垄断地位，资本家也绝不可能去参与竞争。
在全球化垄断资本主义时期，金融资本和产业资本已经融合为一，起决定性作用的不再是产业资本，而是金融资本；在这个历史阶段，金融寡头统治一切，形成了食利者阶层（即金融资本家）和食利国。当今世界，美元的统治地位使美国成为世界上最大的食利国。
（1910年）在这4个国家中有两个是最老的、殖民地最多的资本主义国家——英国和法国，其余两个是在发展速度上和资本主义垄断组织在生产中的普及程度上领先的资本主义国家——美国和德国。这4个国家一共有4790亿法郎，约占全世界金融资本的80％。世界上其他各国，差不多都是这样或那样地成为这4个国家、这4个国际银行家、这4个世界金融资本的“台柱”的债务人和进贡者了。
1900年6月7日，德国最大的工业家和‘金融大王’之一西门子，在德国国会中声称‘一英镑的股票是不列颠帝国主义的基础’”。

本文集卷一收录的《简明日本通史》，是依田先生在中国讲学时所使用的讲稿。已故的历史学家周一良先生在《序言》中作了准确扼要的评价，并推荐说：“这部书既可作教材使用，也可以供对日外事工作人员检阅和参考。”卷二《日本帝国主义研究》着重从经济上揭露二战前日本帝国主义对我国东北和华北地区的侵略，其特点是运用大量的资料、统计和图表，而且几乎全部都是日本统治阶层的资料，然后用画龙点睛的手法，轻轻点上几笔，勾画出侵略者险恶狠毒的用心和狰狞面目，反推出给我国人民带来的巨大灾难和痛苦。卷三中收录的《近代日本与中国》，论述了近代日本帝国主义是在野蛮侵略和掠夺中国、朝鲜的基础上发展壮大起来的，同时也在中国、朝鲜以及包括日本人民在内的亚洲人民的反抗中走向灭亡。卷三中收录的《日本的近代化——与中国的比较》和卷四《日中两国近代化比较研究》，是在我国推行“改革开放”、全面现代化时期，作者新撰的论著。后者是学术专著，前者通俗易懂地概述了后者的主要内容。两者从政治、经济、文化等各个方面，比较了中日两国近代化背景的“异”与“同”，特别强调了两国文化类型与民族性的差异。它们不仅有学术价值，而且对我国当前的现代化也有现实意义。卷五《近代日本的历史问题》收录了作者近年来发表的单篇论文，其中涉及明治维新、天皇制、自由民权运动以及战前日本的殖民政策、军部独裁等近代日本史中的重大问题。《战后教科书问题》一文中，揭露主审教科书的文部省（教育部）文教官僚中根深蒂固地存在着反动的皇国史观的传统。这表明日本的教科书问题屡屡发生，日本当局负有不可推卸的责任。
这五卷文集收录了依田先生关于日本史和中日比较研究的学术著作和论文，是他一辈子的心血结晶，也是他对中国友好感情的自然流露。我相信文集的问世对我国日本史的研究会有所参考、启发和促进。广大读者通过文集可以认识日本社会发展的历史及中日两国之间的异同，了解日本军国主义的侵略本质，从而加深对中日关系中“以史为鉴，面向未来”的原则的理解。

In this definitive historical investigation of the formation of liberalism from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries, Domenico Losurdo overturns complacent and self-congratulatory accounts by showing that, from its very origins, liberalism and its main thinkers-Locke,Burke, Tocqueville, Constant, Bentham, Sieyes and others-have been bound up with the defense of the thoroughly illiberal policies of slavery,colonialism, genocide, racism and elitism. Losurdo probes the inner contradictions of liberalism, also focusing on minority currents that moved to more radical positions, and provides an authoritative account of the relationship between the domestic and colonial spheres in the constitution of a liberal order.

In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a genocidal plundering of the Congo, he looted its rubber, brutalized its people, and ultimately slashed its population by ten million--all the while shrewdly cultivating his reputation as a great humanitarian. Heroic efforts to expose these crimes eventually led to the first great human rights movement of the twentieth century, in which everyone from Mark Twain to the Archbishop of Canterbury participated. King Leopold's Ghost is the haunting account of a megalomaniac of monstrous proportions, a man as cunning, charming, and cruel as any of the great Shakespearean villains. It is also the deeply moving portrait of those who fought Leopold: a brave handful of missionaries, travelers, and young idealists who went to Africa for work or adventure and unexpectedly found themselves witnesses to a holocaust. Adam Hochschild brings this largely untold story alive with the wit and skill of a Barbara Tuchman. Like her, he knows that history often provides a far richer cast of characters than any novelist could invent. Chief among them is Edmund Morel, a young British shipping agent who went on to lead the international crusade against Leopold. Another hero of this tale, the Irish patriot Roger Casement, ended his life on a London gallows. Two courageous black Americans, George Washington Williams and William Sheppard, risked much to bring evidence of the Congo atrocities to the outside world. Sailing into the middle of the story was a young Congo River steamboat officer named Joseph Conrad. And looming above them all, the duplicitous billionaire King Leopold II. With great power and compassion, King Leopold's Ghost will brand the tragedy of the Congo--too long forgotten--onto the conscience of the West.

Drug epidemics are clearly not just a peculiar feature of modern life; the opium trade in the nineteenth century tells us a great deal about Asian herion traffic today. In an age when we are increasingly aware of large scale drug use, this book takes a long look at the history of our relationship with mind-altering substances. Engagingly written, with lay readers as much as specialists in mind, this book will be fascinating reading for historians, social scientists, as well as those involved in Asian studies, or economic history.

An introduction to the rise and fall of the British Empire A new addition to Penguin’s bestselling series of historical atlases, The Penguin Historical Atlas of the British Empire traces the emergence of the world’s greatest empire, from its earliest beginnings in the British Isles through its ascendancy in Victorian times to its ultimate collapse in the mid-twentieth century. It examines the impact of British dominance throughout the world and the legacy it has bestowed.
--Richly illustrated with photographs, artwork re-creations, and over 150 full-color maps
--Contains a timeline and a table of imperial territories

This book explores the nineteenth century roots of globalisation through the activities of the enterprise network created by the Scottish merchant, William Mackinnon. It follows the rise of the family-led business group from its modest origins in Scotland to its transformation into the world's largest maritime and mercantile conglomerate, tracing the history of the various shipping firms within the group - including the British India, Netherlands India and Australasian United companies - and identifies the key factors behind its domination of coastal steamshipping around the Indian Ocean and into the western Pacific. It provides an analysis of the anatomy and dynamics of the enterprise network over time. The book also examines Mackinnon's relationship with the imperial statesman, Sir Henry Bartle Frere, which drew the network into the operations of British 'informal imperialism' in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and East-Central Africa regions, and eventually to its sponsorship of the ill-fated Imperial British East Africa Company. It breaks new ground in identifying the interplay of personal and business considerations behind Mackinnon's participation in the 'Scramble for Africa' in its combination of maritime history with business history and imperial history to contribute to the current debate over 'gentlemanly capitalism' and British overseas expansion. WINNER OF THE 2004 WADSWORTH PRIZE. JOINT WINNER OF THE 2004 SALTIRE SOCIETY RESEARCH BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD. J. FORBES MUNRO is emeritus professor of international economic history, University of Glasgow

For courses in Imperialism/Colonialism as well as the second half of the World History survey course, this textbook addresses modern imperialism and colonialism from a truly global and holistic perspective. From the formation of centralized gunpowder empires in Eurasia and parts of Africa to the demise of the bi-polar Cold War world, Modern Imperialism and Colonialism investigates our evolving understanding of the origins, nature, mechanisms, and demise of modern empires. It evaluates empires as structures and also explores the doctrines, ideologies, and practices of imperialism and colonial rule.

Michael Hudson's in-depth and highly controversial study of U.S. financial diplomacy explores the faults built into the core of the World Bank and the IMF at their inception which -- he argues -- were intended to preserve the US's financial hegemony. Difficult to detect at the time, these problems have since become explicit as the failure of the international economic system has become apparent; the IMF and World Bank were set up to give aid to developing countries, but instead many of the world's poorest countries have been plunged into insurmountable debt crises.
Hudson's critique of the destructive course of the international economic system provides important insights into the real motivations at the heart of these institutions - and the increasing tide of opposition that they face around the world.
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