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29
. Hobbes,
Leviathan
, Part I, ch. 13.

30
. Ibid., ch. 18.

31
. Ibid., Part II, chs. 17, 19.

32
. Locke,
Two Treatises
, Book II, ch. 3.

33
. Ibid., ch. 11.

34
. Ibid., ch. 6.

35
. Ibid., ch. 9.

36
. Ibid., ch. 13.

37
. Full text at
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc05.asp
.

38
. Engerman and Sokoloff, ‘Once upon a Time in the Americas’.

39
. Arneil,
John Locke and America
, p. 98.

40
. Locke,
Two Treatises
, Book II, ch. 5.

41
. Elliott,
Empires of the Atlantic World
, p. 135.

42
. Ibid., p. 40. See also Sato,
Legal Aspects of Landownership
.

43
. Engerman and Sokoloff, ‘Once upon a Time in the Americas’.

44
. Ibid.

45
. See Clark,
Language of Liberty
.

46
. Clark, ‘British America’.

47
. George Washington to William Crawford, 20 September 1767, in Washington and Crawford,
Washington–Crawford Letters
, pp. 3f.

48
. See Jasanoff,
Liberty’s Exiles
.

49
. Lynch,
Bolívar
, p. 63.

50
.
http://faculty.chass.ncsu.edu/slatta/hi216/documents/bolivar/sbwar1813.htm
.

51
. Ortega, ‘Earthquakes’.

52
. Lynch, ‘Bolívar and the Caudillos’, pp. 6f.

53
. King, ‘Royalist View’.

54
. Lynch, ‘Bolívar and the Caudillos’, pp. 16f.

55
. Woodward, ‘Spanish Army’.

56
. Ulrick, ‘Morillo’s Attempt’, p. 553.

57
. Hamnett, ‘Counter Revolution’.

58
. Lynch,
Bolívar
, p. 99.

59
. See in general Langley,
Americas in the Age of Revolution
, esp. pp. 243–84.

60
.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970615224356/www.umich.edu/ ~proflame/mirror/etext/bol5.html
.

61
. Williamson,
Penguin History
, p. 218.

62
.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970615224356/www.umich.edu/ ~proflame/mirror/etext/bol5.html
.

63
. Bolívar to Sir Henry Cullen, 6 September 1815, in Bolívar (ed.),
Selected Writings
, vol. I, p. 114.

64
.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970615224356/www.umich.edu/~proflame/ mirror/etext/bol2.html
.

65
.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970615224356/www.umich.edu/ ~proflame/mirror/etext/bol5.html
.

66
. Lynch,
Bolívar
, p. 218.

67
. Engerman and Sokoloff, ‘Once upon a Time in the Americas’.

68
. Brown,
Adventuring
, figure 2.2.

69
. Lynch, ‘Bolívar and the Caudillos’, pp. 16ff.

70
. Data from Engerman and Sokoloff, ‘Once upon a Time in the Americas’.

71
. Lynch, ‘Bolívar and the Caudillos’, p. 34.

72
. Lynch,
Bolívar
, p. 276.

73
. Cordeiro, ‘Constitutions’.

74
. Engerman and Sokoloff, ‘Once upon a Time in the Americas’.

75
. Fage, ‘Slavery and the Slave Trade’, p. 395.

76
. Curtin,
Plantation Complex
, pp. 4–26.

77
. Thornton and Heywood,
Central Africans
.

78
. Curtin,
Plantation Complex
, p. 26; Klein and Luna,
Slavery in Brazil
, p. 28. See also Prado,
Colonial Background
; Poppino,
Brazil
.

79
. Schwartz, ‘Colonial Past’, p. 185.

80
. Schwartz,
Slaves, Peasants and Rebels
, p. 46.

81
. Graham,
Patronage and Politics
, p. 26.

82
. Elkins,
Slavery
, p. 76.

83
. Davis, ‘Slavery’, p. 72.

84
. Thomas,
Slave Trade
, p. 633.

85
. Davis, ‘Slavery’, p. 78.

86
. Schwartz,
Slaves, Peasants and Rebels
, p. 42.

87
. Elkins,
Slavery
, p. 40.

88
. Ibid., p. 50.

89
. Elliott,
Empires of the Atlantic World
, p. 283.

90
. Davis, ‘Slavery’, p. 125.

91
. Walvin,
Black Ivory
, pp. 16f.

92
. See Rostworowski,
Doña Francisca Pizarro
.

93
. Wang et al., ‘Geographic Patterns’.

94
. Carvajal-Carmona et al., ‘Strong Amerind/White Sex Bias’; Bedoya et al., ‘Admixture Dynamics’.

95
. Ferguson,
War of the World
, pp. 20–22.

96
. Creel,
Peculiar People
.

97
. Eltis, ‘Volume and Structure’, table 1.

98
. Schaefer,
Genealogical Encyclopaedia
; Thornton and Heywood,
Central Africans
.

99
. Langley,
Americas in the Age of Revolution
, p. 240. Emphasis added.

100
. Sam Roberts, ‘Projections Put Whites in Minority in U.S. by 2050’,
New York Times
, 18 December 2009.

101
. Haber, ‘Development Strategy’.

CHAPTER 4: MEDICINE

 

1
. For a classic formulation, see Jules Ferry’s speech of 28 July 1885, quoted in Brunschwig,
French Colonialism
, pp. 76f.

2
. Gandhi,
Hind Swaraj
, ch. VI.

3
. Twain,
Following the Equator
, p. 321.

4
. Lenin,
Imperialism
, ch. X.

5
. Collier,
Bottom Billion
.

6
. Moyo,
Dead Aid
. See also Easterly,
White Man’s Burden
.

7
. Gandhi,
Collected Works
, vol. LIV, pp. 233f.
http://www.gandhiserve.org/cwmg/VOL054.PDF
.

8
. Riley, ‘Health Transitions’, esp. figure 2, table 1.

9
. Ibid., pp. 750, 752.

10
. Shaw, ‘Preface on Doctors’, pp. lxvii–lxviii.

11
. Burke,
Reflections
, p. 151.

12
. Ferguson,
Ascent of Money
, p. 154.

13
.
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/rightsof.asp
.

14
. Burke,
Reflections
, pp. 190f.

15
. Rousseau,
Social Contract
.

16
. Burke,
Reflections
, p. 291.

17
. Schama,
Citizens
, remains the most readable English account.

18
. Tocqueville,
Democracy in America
, pp. 148–51.

19
. Ibid., p. 153.

20
. Carter et al., (eds.),
Historical Statistics of the United States
, table Ed1-5.

21
.
http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars18c.htm
.

22
. All quotations from Clausewitz,
On War
, Book I, chs. 1, 2, 7; Book III, ch. 17; Book VII, chs. 4, 5, 6, 22; Book VIII, chs. 1–9.

23
. Acemoglu et al., ‘Consequences of Radical Reform’.

24
. McLynn,
Napoleon
, p. 664.

25
. Lieven,
Russia against Napoleon
.

26
. Ferguson,
Ascent of Money
, pp. 81f.

27
. Taylor, ‘1848 Revolutions’.

28
. Blanton et al., ‘Colonial Style’.

29
. Crowder,
Senegal
, pp. 6f., 14f.; Cruise O’Brien,
White Society
, p. 39.

30
. Klein,
Islam and Imperialism
, p. 118.

31
. R. L. Buell,
The Native Problem in Africa
(1928), quoted in Crowder,
Senegal
, p. 23.

32
. Cruise O’Brien,
White Society
, p. 33.

33
. Gifford and Louis,
France and Britain
, p. 672.

34
. Cohen,
Rulers of Empire
, ch. 1.

35
. Brunschwig, ‘French Exploration and Conquest’.

36
. Conklin,
Mission
, p. 13.

37
. Fonge,
Modernization without Development
, p. 66.

38
. Ibid.

39
. Berenson,
Heroes of Empire
, pp. 197f.

40
. Joireman, ‘Inherited Legal Systems’.

41
. Cohen,
Rulers of Empire
, pp. 79f.

42
. Asiwaju,
West African Transformations
, p. 60.

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