Escritos Críticos

Etiqueta: Industrial Revolution

  • “The White Man’s Burden II”

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    In a critical examination of an opinion piece by John Steele Gordon, Jorge Majfud highlights the historical distortions surrounding wealth creation in America. Majfud argues that America’s prosperity stemmed from exploitation and military dominance rather than true innovation. He emphasizes the destructive nature of wealth accumulation and critiques the glorification of capitalists, urging a recognition…

  • 3. Industrial Europe and the Imperial Drive

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    The document discusses the impact of European colonialism in Africa post-1850, highlighting the significance of the Industrial Revolution, technological advances, and race theory in facilitating imperial expansion. It outlines how Africa became crucial for European economies and examines Ethiopia’s successful resistance against colonization, contrasting it with widespread exploitation of African resources.

  • 11 – The Industrial World

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    Este contenido presenta una guía simplificada sobre la evolución arquitectónica y materiales innovadores del siglo XIX. Se exploran perspectivas políticas, nuevas clases sociales, el surgimiento de rascacielos y movimientos como el Art Nouveau. Además, se mencionan obras paradigmáticas y avances en tecnología que revolucionaron la arquitectura moderna.

  • Earth Tipping Point Study In Nature Journal Predicts Disturbing And Unpredictable Changes

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    This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012. By Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Earth is rapidly headed toward a catastrophic breakdown if humans don’t get their act together, according to an international group of scientists. Writing Wednesday (June 6) in the journal Nature, the researchers…

  • Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image

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    Katrina y la hiperrealidad de la imagen (Spanish) Hurricane Katrina and the Hyperreality of the Image by Jorge Majfud Translated by Bruce Campbell September 2, 2005 In the 16th century, the Dominican brother Bartolomé de las Casas wrote an empassioned chronicle about the brutal conquest by the Spanish Empire of the new world. The denunciation…

  • One Bolivia, White and Wealthy

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    Una sola Bolivia, blanca y próspera (Spanish)   One Bolivia, White and Wealthy   The rapid Conquest of Amerindia would have been impossible without the Mesoamerican and Andean cosmology. Otherwise two mature empires, with millions of inhabitants and brave armies would never have succumbed to the madness of a handful of Spaniards. But it was…

  • Intellectual Capital

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    Intellectual Capital In 1970 the General Motors workers’ strike cut the U.S. GDP by 4 percent and is estimated to have been the reason for the poor 2 percent growth that the country experienced in the following years. Today the decline of all U.S. automotive industries affects just one percentage point. Almost all of the…