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The English in the West Indies
The English in the West Indies By James Anthony Froude
122 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1969
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April 24, 2013Moldbug says:
To join the Froude Society - actually, to become a deacon of the Froude Society - all you need to do is read three works of High Victorian political and historical criticism. I recommend this order: The Bow of Ulysses, by James Anthony Froude; Popular Government, by Henry Sumner Maine; and Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle. These books will change your life, or at least your mind.
There are more books, more authors, where these came from. Without blinking we could add Lecky, Stephen and Austin to this pantheon, for instance; nor are Ruskin, Arnold, and Kingsley to be sneered at. And the remaining oeuvre of Froude, Maine and Carlyle is no less vast. And this is not a random sample of Victorian thought, but the cream of a coherent tradition. And anyone can read it. It's free - thanks to Google. Now and for the foreseeable future, Froude is more accessible than Stephen King.
The task of the Froude Society is to restore High Victorian thought in the 21st century. And when I say restore, I mean restore to life - not study. The Society traffics not in critical formaldehyde.
To join the Froude Society - actually, to become a deacon of the Froude Society - all you need to do is read three works of High Victorian political and historical criticism. I recommend this order: The Bow of Ulysses, by James Anthony Froude; Popular Government, by Henry Sumner Maine; and Latter-Day Pamphlets, by Thomas Carlyle. These books will change your life, or at least your mind.
There are more books, more authors, where these came from. Without blinking we could add Lecky, Stephen and Austin to this pantheon, for instance; nor are Ruskin, Arnold, and Kingsley to be sneered at. And the remaining oeuvre of Froude, Maine and Carlyle is no less vast. And this is not a random sample of Victorian thought, but the cream of a coherent tradition. And anyone can read it. It's free - thanks to Google. Now and for the foreseeable future, Froude is more accessible than Stephen King.
The task of the Froude Society is to restore High Victorian thought in the 21st century. And when I say restore, I mean restore to life - not study. The Society traffics not in critical formaldehyde.
February 14, 2018
Professor Froude takes us through his tour of the West Indies in the late Victorian Era. Here we see the Empire in many different forms and degrees of degredation.
The books seems to half travelogue and half discussion of the problems facing the Empire and possible solutions to these.
A note to sensitive modern readers: Froude is no friend to your democracy, constitutions, rights and what-not. This is a man who thinks that the West Indies should not be allowed to govern themselves because "having taken these lands into the Arms of Empire" it is in the Empire's duty to govern them and govern them well, rather than throwing them to the winds and saying "Rule Thyself."
The books seems to half travelogue and half discussion of the problems facing the Empire and possible solutions to these.
A note to sensitive modern readers: Froude is no friend to your democracy, constitutions, rights and what-not. This is a man who thinks that the West Indies should not be allowed to govern themselves because "having taken these lands into the Arms of Empire" it is in the Empire's duty to govern them and govern them well, rather than throwing them to the winds and saying "Rule Thyself."
January 8, 2017
High Victorian reactionary literature at its best.
May 29, 2016
Pretty decent. The English is modern enough. Gives a good grounding of what life was like in the Carribean during the late 19th century.
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