The old peripheries of the mercantilist age (Latin America and the British and Dutch East Indies) were excluded from the dual revolution, while the old states of Asia (China, the Ottoman sultanate, and Persia) were being integrated as peripheries within the new globalization. ..…

The Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch and British empires, among others, carried Western Christianity to sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia and Americas regions that in the century experienced much population growth than Europe. ..…

In Pakistan, for instance, blasphemy statutes have their origins in the country's past, when British rulers first introduced penalties for insulting any religious beliefs. Pakistan is one of 12 of the 50 countries in Asia-Pacific region that had blasphemy laws in 2014. ..…

I believe this to be no less true of whatever we can retrieve from the twentieth-century memory of social democracy. . 1 See “High Gini Is Loosed Upon Asia,” The Economist, August 11, 2007. ↩ . . 2 See Massimo Florio, The Great Divestiture: Evaluating the Welfare Impact of the British..…

Of course, there is no talk of “self-determination” for India or British possessions in Africa and Southeast Asia, all of which are part of the world’s largest empire. . ..…