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As returnees grew wealthier, the party’s attitude toward them changed. In the old days, if returnees said the slightest thing wrong, they’d be purged or whisked off to a concentration camp. Now they were considered a positive asset, so the party started treating them better. A canny move, it turned out. There were ways of using hostages. The black

The Philippine Assembly took action and, in 1914, passed legislation that banned the exhibition of groups of Filipino tribespeople abroad. As a measure of the seriousness with which the Philippine lawmakers regarded the subject, the ban was included as an amendment to a new Anti-Slavery Act.

Durante el período gubernamental de Juan José Arévalo (1945-1950) comenzaron las alarmas. No porque el profesor Arévalo, que defendía un «socialismo espiritual» confusamente idealista, se hubiera metido contra la United Fruit. Pero hizo aprobar una ley del trabajo que permitía a los obreros y campesinos formar sindicatos o afiliarse a ellos, algo q

Douglas MacArthur is one of those blips in history, an idiosyncratic figure who, for reasons hard to satisfactorily explain, acquired far more power than he had any reason to. In the United States in the mid-twentieth century, there were three such men, each operating on a different scale. On the level of the city, there was Robert Moses, who someh

Finally, in October 1906, he was arrested on multiple charges of stealing from the Igorrotes and sentenced for 18 months in the workhouse after a sensational trial in Memphis.

Morgan made his specialty the refinancing, reorganization, and rationalization of America’s badly overextended and overcapitalized railroads; his “clients” included some of the largest, such as the Erie, the New York Central, and the Pennsylvania.

When Hunt received a tip-off that the Bureau was sending a man to examine his Igorrote enterprise, he fled town. He went on the run, taking some of the tribespeople with him.

But generally, the move from government provision of housing, food, and jobs programs to this network of semiprivate organizations introduced perverse incentives into life-sustaining institutions. The result has been a wealth transfer of public money to boards of directors staffed largely by local elites that are more likely to be responsive to rea