Skoe, Australia is not a continent, you megaliomaniac!

Neuch, that post is as intelligent as Britney Spears. congrats!

India has quite a history that partially explains it. I'll make a post about it when I get back from university.

Earth has 4 moons

FACT

Chances that it rains in the weekend are larger than rain on a weekday!

FACT

There's a difference between being slim and skinny. I just don't like women whose ribcage can be used as a ladder.... :s

"Clarify WFS, what  is wrong with being skinny?"

Skinny women just aren't attractive.

I was waiting for the first one to come up with that..

skinny people

stupidity.

France is stronger than Germany? I have doubts about that...

It can't offer more comfort then mine, or you should have a jacuzzi!

First of all, that's not the consensus of what Historians think. Some people in the historic field are morons, but you have those everywhere (remember those tit-physicians that claimed that LHC would destroy us all). I don't think Historians are pseudo-intellectuals. On the contrary, history has quite a low self esteem, as it's looking for a new direction to investigate things in; after all, post modernism affected it moderatly hard. Historians are thus always quite modest when they're concluding things.

Somehow I think you aimed "Because at the moment I can't stop but think today's generation of historians has it very wrong." and "pseudo intelectuals" to me as well...

Now, when it comes down to racism and imperialism, the theory you quoted Justinian, is wrong. Historians agree on different causes nowadays, putting racism aside as a side effect (I'll get to this aspect later on).
Understanding 19th century industrialisation and imperialism is only to be understood from it's ultimate origin, wich is the 15th century. From this century onward, actual states start to form. Nobility gets put aside and loses most of its power, cities are no longer enclaves and they become integrated into the actual state, at the same time the power of the clergy is tackled as well. The start of this process is in the 15th century, but it's quite a slow process. Also, it differs from region to region (England was for example faster, Germany a lot slower etc) but this is the general process.
Now, along with the actual political power being formed on a higher level, competition between these entities heats up as well. You'll argue that in medieval times, there were conflicts between countries too, but those were of a different kind. These reorganised countries start to compete on very different levels, wich explains mercanilism for economy, and the military revolution of the 16th - 17th century for the military. In this scenario were the first explorations made, and colonies founded (to exploit silver mines etc). It was another way of competing against other nations on an economical level.
Now to come to the 19th century: industrialism was only just kicking in, and this meant a new rush of international competition. This is why Africa was only colonised in this period. The industrialisation meant a new demand for products (like rubber) that weren't available enough in the economical situation before the colonisation.

Racism has little to do with this process, but it must have made it easier for the Western people to colonise other peoples. Although racism was always apparent in the west, it was mostly non-violent. Also, it must be said that it wasn't completely racist either. Europeans traded with muslims for centuries while they both looked up and down on them. This is a very good example of how they actually thought about other "races".
This racism comes from a typical Western tendency to put things into a sort of order. When you compare texts of Tomas of Aquino, renaissance thinkers and even thinkers from the scientific revolution, you can always spot a tendency of trying to label things into some sort of "supertaxonomy" and a tendency put a sort of order into things. Recism found it's origin in that, but again it was more latent than all determining or all-present.

And to finish this post: I'd like to repeat that every field has its morons, I haven't read the entire article but I think it comes very close to "Guns, Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond at some point, wich again was criticed heavily..

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