Peter Duus, The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995). Along with Korea Between Empires and Two Dreams in One Bed ...of how we dehumanize others in order to justify our behavior towards them seems to be an issue for psychologists, not historians, yet we are not infrequently tasked with dealing with the issue ...

Italy Pays Reparations to Libya By JEFF ISRAELY1 hour, 57 minutes ago One of the perks of one-man rule is picking your national holidays. Libya's Col. Muammar Gaddafi has invented a few fÊtes for his...and unpredictability, signed the deal under one of Gaddafi's trademark desert tents in the coastal city of Benghazi, trading jokes and each sharing pictures of their grandchildren. --MORE--

http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org//press/press.php?annc_id=271§ion_id=2 Interesting press release from the DC Green Party - apparently not even the democrats favor statehood for the district anymore... However, considering the alternatives, I will stick with democracy, thank you very much. Of course, perhaps DC should secede from the Union and only rejoin if they will have full state status? Free DC!

Is Indianness just a German ideology? In the first of a two-part analysis of neoliberalism in the sub-continent, Neil Gray traces the history of Hindu cultural nationalism, from a colonialist mystique of pure spirituality to today’s fascist pogroms and economic polarization .

...the grave image he projects to the outside world. It is his cynicism and hypocrisy which lead him to marry and discard at will a series of girls from poor villages, using and discarding them at will. Apart from the character of the Bendoro himself, it is the life of the fishing village which is most strongly drawn by Toer, representing, no doubt, an Indonesia largely untouched by colonialism.

Peter B. High, The Imperial Screen: Japanese Film Culture in the Fifteen Years' War, 1931-1945 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). This is essentially the English language work on Japanese...him a scholarship. (217-8) (The book is stuffed with these - lengthy, interesting, but just too much) So over the top. V. reminiscent of the 'pat endings' of many early '30s Chinese films

Clash of Worlds (The Worlds Being Christianity and Islam) I just had an infuriating conversation with a pro-Israel idiot who is viciously anti-Islamic (to the point that he thinks Muslims deserve to be slaughtered) and can't defend his position to save his life. It's one thing to be an insensitive racist bigot, but it's a further aggravation to insult philosophy . Jihad TV

Prasenjit Duara, Sovereignty and Authenticity: Manchukuo and the East Asian Modern (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc, 2003) Not quite sure what to say about this, other than wow ...defense and alliance into a deep history of inalienability. There must surely be a place in our understanding of nationalism in the real world that is strategic or coalitional in character. (254)

Was Mathieu da/de COSTE'* the father of Jean/Jehan COTE' dit COSTE'? A Preliminary Outline Jean or Jehan COTE'[1] dit COSTE' and Anne MARTIN/MATCHONON**, a Wyandott (Huron-Wendat) woman****, are...(in English the suffix "-quoddy", etc.) === by Anne Cote' (Annie Deer) 10 July 2008 CC License CA 2.5 Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ca/

If I were to construct a scene, one of those humorous sketches perhaps, in which a media gatekeeper praises an writer for being courageous and perceptive enough to portray their story's villain as utterly...around the links above.) I mean, beyond the whole "Duuuude, you're TOTALLY ripping off Dan Simmons' Creative Commons work! angle. --Oh, and the 'only crime is getting caught' thing, natch