NOTES 557
- In Tidrick, Heart Beguiling Araby, which is not tender toward the British victims
of romantic illusion. See the foreword by Albert Hourani. - The quotations are from Francis Robinson, "Through the Minefield," pp. 3-4.
Robinson, a professor at the University of London, is generally sympathetic to Lewis
and respectful of his scholarship. His observations of the intellectual climate are all the
more telling. - This stress on motive shows again in Said's denunciation of Western work on
Islam and Arab societies. Rather than confront data and theses, he dismisses the whole
business as inspired by "antagonisms and hostility," by "cultural antipathy." See his lec-
ture at the Collège de France, "Comment l'Occident voit les Arabes," Le Monde, 3 De-
cember 1996, p. 16. - See Nicholas D. Kristof, "Japan's Feminine Falsetto Falls Right Out of Favor,"
N.T. Times, 13 December 1995, p. A-l. - Nolte and Hastings, "Meiji State's Policy," p. 157.
- Ibid.
- See Sheryl WuDunn, "On Tokyo's Packed Trains, Molesters Are Brazen," N.T.
Times, 17 December 1995, p. A-3. - Shimai Soshitsu, cited in Uno, "Women and Changes," p. 33.
CHAPTER 25- In recent years, an effort has been expended to test by the numbers what was once
a litde contested orthodoxy: among others, Davis and Huttenback, Mammon and the
Pursuit of Empire; or on an individual case, Kimura, "The Economics of Japanese Im-
perialism in Korea," especially pp. 568-70. Michael Adas, " 'High' Imperialism," pp.
327-28, terms these "grand attempts to draw up balance sheets" an exercise in "over-
simplification and ultimately futility." Translation: they don't come out as the materi-
alist interpreters of imperialism would like; not enough profit. - Klor de Alva, "Postcolonization," p. 242.
- Ibid., p. 267. Cf. Prakash, in Prakash, ed., After Colonialism, p. 3.
- On this, see especially Bartiett, Making of Europe.
- Hopkins, Economic History, p. 256.
- Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, p. 290, cites the consolation of the "bottle, the
bullet, and the bible" (source not given) and offers figures on alcohol consumption,
not only by officials and officers, but also of course by the troops and subalterns. On
sex, he cites (p. 291) Alfred Milner (1854-1925), activist proconsul in South Africa:
"Sex enters into these Great Matters of State. It always has, it always will. It is never
recorded, therefore history will never be intelligible." The historian may safely assume
that in such private matters, the scattered relationships we know about are only the tip.
Cf. Hyam, Empire and Sexuality. - Cook, The Long Fuse, p. 227, citing Charles Stuart in a letter of 1775 to his father
the earl of Bute, after fighting the American rebels at the Battle of Bunker Hill. - On empire as blood lust, see Lindqvist, "Exterminate All the Brutes,"'pp. 52 ff. I
do not think he exaggerates. - Hence the seminal article of Gallagher and Robinson, "The Imperialism of Free
Trade." - Cf. Landes, Bankers and Pashas, ch. 3, on the practices and profits of informal im-
perialism. - Hyam, Britain's Imperial Century, p. 164.
- Cf. S. Erlanger, "Retired People Are Struggling in the New Russia," N.T. Times,
8 August 1995, p. A-3: "This House of Veterans, opened in 1986 and already crum-
bling in typical Soviet fashion. ..." - Harrison, Inside the Third World, p. 336.