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I'd also add 3. It seems dubious that colonization would lead to oral histories of civil war, somehow "transferring" brutality from a foreign invader to themsel
by brighteyes 9y ago
I'd also add 3. It seems dubious that colonization would lead to oral histories of civil war, somehow "transferring" brutality from a foreign invader to themselves.
The author doesn't seem to give a lot of credit to the locals and their own accounts of history. Those stories are often much more accurate than we think.
- justinator 9y ago> It seems dubious that colonization would lead to oral histories of civil war Look at Africa, and the civil wars that popped up after post-colonization. Or, I mean, look at Iraq now. When an outside government overthrows the current power, sets up their own ideal of a government, and then leaves, it usually doesn't end up well, right? There's going to be hangers-on of the old ways, they are going to be a PITA for the new system, once it's set up.
- oh_sigh 9y agoThe civil wars were there pre-colonization as well.
- njarboe 9y agoPre-colonization they were just wars. After Europeans drew lines and made countries, many wars became civil wars.
- bandrami 9y agoThey didn't "pop up" post-colonization so much as "be directly caused, funded, and orchestrated by the exiting colonial powers and their superpower patrons".