Imperialism: Past and Present

Two international experts on global empire examine war, capitalism and imperialism:
What is imperialism? Did it lead to WW2? And how is it connected to capitalism?
Keynotes:
Richard Overy (Exeter): Imperialism & War.
Professor Overy is a renowned historian and has published numerous books on the interwar period. His recent, widely acknowledged “magnum opus” and “masterpiece” is Blood and Ruins: The Great Imperial War, 1931-1945 .
Vivek Chibber (New York University): Capitalism & Imperialism.
Professor Chibber is a distinguished social theorist and author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital and, most recently, The Class Matrix: Social Theory after the Cultural Turn.
This event inaugurates Kent’s new Centre for the Global Study of Empire and is co-sponsored by the Centre for the History of War, Media, and Society.

[@nasanka7428]

Great and interesting talk

[@Pyasa.shaitan]

15:45

[@EurekaRepublic89]

Vivek Chibber spent some time talking about British imperialism in India without once mentioning the drain of wealth.

[@MM-du7je]

water is wet

[@shwetanktewari7762]

That ''drain of wealth' is Indian Nationalist (RSS) propaganda. Tirthankar Roy has done some work on exposing Indian Propaganda.
A lot of poor Indians died, became more poor, etc but a lot of elite Indians became enormously rich. Some new Mumbai elites benefitted so much from Opium Trade to China that they even funded British (Indian) Army to fight China. There was a great redistribution of wealth from poor Indians to elite Indians during the British Rule.