Crash and Burn

[Brad De Long]

>On Fri, August 28, 1998 at 22:12:55 (-0600) bautiste at uswest.net writes:
>>
>>WALTER RUSSELL MEAD, Council on Foreign Relations: ...
>>                                             ... the panic of 1857 in
>>the U.S. was really set off by the Indian mutiny. ...
>
>Damn those mutinous, ungrateful darkies!
>
>The spirit of imperialism still thrives in the CFR, even if Brad De
>Long thinks this is a 17th century sort of thing...
>
>
>Bill

To say that the world financial panic of 1857 was set off by the Indian
Mutiny is to make a statement of fact, not an expression of imperialism.

Unless, perhaps, you are criticizing Mead's failure to use the term "Sepoy
Rebellion" (which I prefer)?

Brad DeLong