Burnell & Randall: Politics in the Developing World 2e 
Study QuestionsBurnell & Randall: Politics in the Developing World 2e
Chapter 2
bostonreview.net/BR30.1/chibber.html
Chibber, V. (2005), 'The Good Empire. Should
We Pick Up Where the British Left Off?', Boston Review, 30/1. An Indian political scientist's damning
critique of Niall Ferguson's (2004) Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire (London:
Allen Lane), and of the poor scholarship that lies behind the early twenty-first-century idea of a new
liberal imperialism.
hdr.undp.org/en/reports/global/hdr2004/papers/hdr2004_nicholas_dirks.pdf
Nicholas Dirks (2004), 'Colonial and Postcolonial
Histories: Comparative Reflections on the Legacies of Empire', Global Background Paper for United
Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report, Cultural Liberty in Today's Diverse
World. A historical anthropologist, specializing in South Asia, considers the colonial legacy.
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