A Bibliography of Literary Theory, Criticism and Philology
by José Ángel García Landa
(University of Zaragoza, Spain)
Imperialism
Bishop, Alan J. "Western Mathematics: The Secret Weapon of Cultural Imperialism." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 71-76.*
Baños, Pedro. Así se domina el mundo: Desvelando las claves del poder mundial. Barcelona: Ariel, 2017. 21st ed. 2022. (Translated to 15 languages).
Bravo García, José Ramón. Filosofía del imperio y de la nación en el siglo XXI: Ensayo sobre el problema político de las Españas y las Rusias. Oviedo: Pentalfa, 2022.
Brotton, Jerry, et al. Maps: Power, Plunder, and Possession. Presented by Jerry Brotton. BBC4 series, 2010.
Brown, Laura. "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves." In Oroonoko: An Authoritative Text / Historical Backgrounds / Criticism. Ed. Joanna Lipking. (Norton Critical Editions). New York: Norton, 1997. 232-45.*
_____. "The Romance of Empire: Oroonoko and the Trade in Slaves." In Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd. (New Casebooks). New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 180-208.
Brown, Stewart, ed. William Robertson and the Expansion of Empire. Ed. Stewart Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Cheng, Vincent. Joyce, Race, and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Chaudhuri, Nupur, and Margaret Strobel, eds. Western Women and Imperialism: Complicity and Resistance. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1992.
Crosby, Alfred W. Imperialismo ecológico: La expansión biológica de Europa, 900-1900. Barcelona: Crítica, 1988.
_____. "Ecological Imperialism." In The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. Ed. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. London: Routledge, 1995. 418-22.*
Debray, Régis. Los imperios contra Europa. (Colección Punto y Cento). Versal, 1985.
Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13000 Years. London: Jonathan Cape, 1997.
_____. "La evolución de los gérmenes y las armas de fuego." In Evolución: Sociedad, ciencia y universo. Ed. Andrew C. Fabian. Barcelona: Tusquets, 2001. 77-102.*
Din, Gilbert C. "Empires Too Far: The Demographic Limitations of Three Imperial Powers in the Eighteenth-Century Mississippi Valley." The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 50.3 (2009).
Dryden, Linda. Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Romance. Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999.
Eldridge, C. C. The Imperial Experience: From Carlyle to Forster. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996.
_____. "The Revival of the Imperial Idea." In Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Elortuy, Eleuterio, S. J. La idea de Imperio en el pensamiento español y de otros pueblos. Madrid: Espasa Calpe, 1944.
Ferguson, Niall. Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World.
_____. Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire.
Fontana, Josep. Por el bien del imperio. P & Presente, c. 2012.
Fuchs, Barbara. "Conquering Islands: Contextualizing The Tempest." Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (Spring 1997): 45-63.*
Fox, Robin, and Lionel Tiger. The Imperial Animal.
García Gual, Carlos. "Propaganda imperial y afán de eternidad." In García Gual, La luz de los lejanos faros: Una defensa apasionada de las humanidades. Barcelona: Planeta-Ariel, 2017. 169-77.*
García Landa, José Angel. "Que tu mano izquierda sepa, pero se haga la loca." In Cosas que quedaron por decir: Blog de notas (Octubre 2006) 10 Oct. 2026.* (US imperialism).
http://www.unizar.es/departamentos/filologia_inglesa/garciala/z06-10.html
2012 DISCONTINUED 2018 – Online at the Internet Archive:
2020
https://www.flickr.com/photos/garciala/46823599532/in/dateposted-public/
2020
_____. "Que tu mano izquierda sepa, pero se haga la loca." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 10 Oct. 2006.* (US imperialism).
https://garciala.blogia.com/2006/101002-que-tu-mano-izquierda-sepa-pero-se-haga-la-loca.php
2026
_____. "Retropost, 2006: Que tu mano izquierda sepa, pero se haga la loca." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 10 Oct. 2026.*
https://blogdenotasvanityfea.blogspot.com/2026/10/retropost-2006-que-tu-mano-izquierda.html
2026
https://x.com/JoseAngelGLanda/status/2108689659245027486
2026
_____. "La deuda metódica." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 3 June 2011.*
http://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2011/06/la-deuda-metodica.html
2011
_____. "La deuda metódica." Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) 6 June 2011.*
http://www.ibercampus.es/articulos.asp?idarticulo=14436
2013 DISCONTINUED – online at the Internet Archive:
2022
Ibercampus (Vanity Fea) Sept. 2021.*
https://www.ibercampus.es/articulo.asp?idarticulo=14536
2021
_____. "La deuda metódica (Methodical Debt)." SSRN 2 July 2021.*
https://ssrn.com/abstract=3870812
http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3870812
2021
European Economics: Macroeconomics & Monetary Economics eJournal 2 July 2021.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Euro-Econ-Macro-Monetary.html
2021
Macroeconomics: Monetary & Fiscal Policies eJournal 2 July 2021.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Monetary-Fiscal-Policies.html
2021
Public Economics: National Government Expenditures & Related Policies eJournal 2 July 2021.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/PE-natl-gov-expend-related-pol.html
2021
Social & Political Philosophy eJournal 2 July 2021.*
https://www.ssrn.com/link/Social-Political-Philosophy.html
2021
_____. "La Deuda Metódica." In García Landa, Vanity Fea 22 Aug. 2021.*
https://vanityfea.blogspot.com/2021/08/la-deuda-metodica-methodical-debt.html
2021
_____. "La Deuda Metódica." Academia 20 Sept. 2021.*
https://www.academia.edu/52928389/
2021
_____. "La Deuda Metódica." ResearchGate 15 Oct. 2021.*
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/355297933
2021
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/352984763
2022
_____. "La Deuda Metódica." Humanities Commons 17 Jan. 2022.*
https://doi.org/10.17613/07yp-kz88
https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:44239/
2022
_____. "La Deuda Metódica." Net Sight de José Angel García Landa 4 Jan. 2023*
https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/deudametodica.pdf
2024
Gibert Maceda, Teresa. "An Outpost of Progress: La ironía imperial de Joseph Conrad." Epos 4 (1988): 469-84.*
Goldsworthy, Vesna. Inventing Ruritania: The Imperialism of the Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, c. 1998.
Gullo, Marcelo. La insubordinación fundante.
Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri. Empire. 2000.
_____. Imperio. Paidós.
_____. Multitud: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Harlow, Barbara, and Mia Carter, eds. Imperialism and Orientalism: The Primary Sources. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Hobson, John Atkinson. "The Political Significance of Imperialism." 1902. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2021-23.*
Hobson, John A., and V. I. Lenin. Imperialismo. Epilogue by David Harvey. (Entrelíneas, 2). Madrid: Capitán Swing Libros, 2009.*
Hoffman, Philip T. Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
Hornborg, Alf. "Machine Fetishism, Value and the Image of Unlimited Good: Towards a Thermodynamics of Imperialism." Man 1 (1992).
Hornqvist, M. Machiavelli and Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
Kadir, Djelal. Columbus and the Ends of Earth: Europe's Prophetic Rhetoric as Conquering Ideology. California UP, 1992.
Kaplan, Amy, and Donald E. Pease, eds. Cultures of United States Imperialism. Durham : Duke UP, 1993.
López Rodríguez, Daniel. Historia del Globalismo: Una Filosofía de la Historia del Nuevo Orden Mundial. Spain: Sekotia, 2023.
Louis, William Roger. Imperialism at Bay 1941-1945: The United States and the Decolonization of the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1977.
Madsiki, Saree. Romantic Imperialism: Universal Empire and the Culture of Modernity. c. 2000.
McInelly, Brett C. "Expanding Empires, Expanding Selves: Colonialism, the Novel and Robinson Crusoe." Studies in the Novel 35.1 (2003): 1-21. Online at EBSCO.
Nagra, Angad. "Update 2: Case Study Iraq: Oil as an Instrument of Geopolitical Domination." Znet Interactive (2003) (11/9/03)
http://zena.secureforum.com/interactive/content/display_item.cfm?itemID=4964
Negri, Toni, and Michael Hardt. Empire. Cambridge (MA): Harvard UP, 2000.
Newman, Judie. Fictions of America: Narratives of Global Empire. London and New York: Routledge, 2007.
Norton, Sandy Morey. "The Imperialism of Theory: A Response to J. Russell Perkin." Narrative 2.2: 167-176.*
Orbán, Balázs. "The Lessons of 1914 Matter Today More than Ever: A Case for Less Imperial Realism and More Realism." The National Interest 27 Nov. 2022.* (John Mearsheimer; Ukrainian war)
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/lessons-1914-matter-today-more-ever-205941
2022
Pérez de Ayala, Ramón. "III. La lengua sigue al imperio." ABC (Madrid) 30 Aug. 1959. Rpt. in "Humanidades." In Pérez de Ayala, Más divagaciones literarias. Madrid: Biblioteca Nueva, 1960. 241-46.*
Phillips, Richard. Mapping Men and Empire: A Geography of Adventure. London: Routledge, 1997.
Phillipson, Robert. Linguistic Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1992. (Oxford Applied Linguistics). 2000.*
Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. London: Routledge, 1992. 1993. 1994. 1995. 1997. 1998. 2000 (2). 2001.*
Prescott, Lynda. "Joseph Conrad and the Imperial Vision: Heart of Darkness." In The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Routledge / Open U, 2001. 287-310.*
Rawson, Claude. God, Gulliver, and Genocide: Barbarism and the European Imagination, 1492-1945. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2002. (American colonization, Holocaust, Montaigne, Swift, Shaw).
Richards, Jeffrey. Imperialism and Juvenile Literature. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1989.
Roca Barea, María Elvira. Imperiofobia y leyenda negra: Roma, Rusia, Estados Unidos y el Imperio español. (Biblioteca de Ensayo, serie mayor). Madrid: Siruela, 2016.
Rowe, John Carlos. Literary Culture and US Imperialism. Oxford UP, 2000.
_____. "Edgar Allan Poe's Imperial Fantasy and the American Frontier." In Romancing the Shadow: Poe and Race. Ed. J. Gerald Kennedy and Liliane Weissberg. New York: Oxford UP, 2001. 75-105.*
Ruskin, John. From Lectures on Art. [Imperial duty.] 1870, pub. 1894. In The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Ed. M. H. Abrams, with Stephen Greenblatt et al. New York: Norton, 1999. 2.2019-20.
Said, Edward W. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Knopf, 1993.
_____. Culture and Imperialism. 1993. London: Vintage, 1994.*
_____. "Culture and Imperialism." In The Realist Novel. Ed. Dennis Walder. London: Routledge / Open U, 1995. 2001. 253-57.*
_____. From Culture and Imperialism. 1993. In Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. Ed. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh. 3rd ed. London: Arnold, 1996. 348-59.*
_____. "Jane Austen and Empire." 1993. In Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. 417-33.*
_____. "Austen and Empire." In Literary Theory: An Anthology. Ed. Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan. 2nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
Smith, Christopher John, and Liv Mariah Yarrow, eds. Imperialism, Cultural Politics, and Polybius. New York: Oxford UP, 2012.
Spiro, David E. The Hidden Hand of American Hegemony: Petrodollar Recycling and International Markets.
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Three Women's Texts and a Critique of Imperialism." In 'Race', Writing and Difference. Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Special issue of Critical Inquiry 12.1 (1985): 243-61.
Suleri, Sara. The Rhetoric of English India. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992. Rev. English Literature in Transition 37.2 (1994).
Sullivan, Zohreh T. Narratives of Empire: The Fictions of Ruyard Kipling. New York: Cambridge UP, 1993. Rev. in English Literature in Transition 37.4 (1994).
Tiffin, Chris, and Alan Lawson. De-Scribing Empire: Post-Colonialism and Textuality. London: Routledge, 1994.
Todd, Emmanuel. Después del imperio.
_____. La caída de Occidente
Tögel, Jonas. Kriegsspiele: Wie NATO und Pentagon die Zerstörung Europas simulieren. Westend.
_____. Kognitive Kriegsführung: Neuesten Manipulationstechnike als Waffengattung der NATO. Westend. (Disinformation, Manipulation, Imperialism).
Tomlison, John. Cultural Imperialism: A Critical Introduction. Continuum, 2002.
Turchin, Peter. War and Peace and War: The Rise and Fall of Empires. New York: Plume, 2007.
_____. "Why Did Europe Conquer the World?" Cliodynamica 12 May 2016.*
http://peterturchin.com/blog/2016/05/12/why-did-europe-conquer-the-world/
2016
Vidal, César. El proyecto imperial de Donald Trump: ¿Es Donald Trump el nuevo Adriano? 2026.
Vidal Villa, José María. Teoría del imperialismo. Ediciones de Bolsillo.
Watson, Peter. "33. Los usos y abusos del nacionalismo y el imperialismo." In Watson, Ideas: Historia intelectual de la Humanidad. Barcelona: Crítica, 2006. 1049-92.* (British empire).
Williams, Patrick. "Imperial Vision: Anti-Colonial Revisions." Critical Survey 10.3 (1998):114.
Williams, Robert A., Jr. Savage Anxieties: The Invention of Western Civilization. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230338763
2014
Wynne, Catherine. "Philanthropies and Villanies: The Conflict of the Imperial and the Anti-Imperial in Conan Doyle." In The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film. Ed. Stacy Gillis and Philippa Gates. Westport (CT): Greenwood Press, 2002. 69-80.*
Zuesse, Eric. America's Empire of Evil: Hitler's Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change. Hyacinth Editions, 2022.*
Audio
Díaz Villanueva, Fernando. "El gran juego de Asia." Audio. YouTube (Fernando Díaz Villanueva) 20 Aug. 2021.* (19th-c. Imperialism).
2021
Series
(Studies in Imperialism). Manchester: Manchester UP, c. 1998.
Video
Baños, Pedro. "Aula Literatura Pedro Baños 24 octubre 2022." Video. YouTube (Canal San Roque) 24 Oct. 2022.* (Geostrategy, Power, Politics, Debt, Magnates; Blackrock, Vanguard; US foreign policy; World order, Imperialism, Ukraine war, Belicism, Chinese development, Huawei; Conflicts, manipulation).
2022
Boyd, Barbara. "Donroe Doctrine Goes Live: From Ukraine to Falklands." Video. YouTube (Promethean Updates) 7 Sept. 2026.*
2026
Bravo, José Ramón. "Europeísmo y racialismo - EFO255." Video lecture, Fundación Gustavo Bueno. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 20 Jan. 2022.*
2022
Carlson, Tucker. "Un profeta político predice la próxima fase de Irán, el plan de Trump y el sabotaje de Israel." Video interview with Jiang Xueqin. YouTube (Tucker Carlson) 20 March 2026.* (Geopolitics, Economy, Imperialism, Israel, Eschatology, Conspiracies, Secret societies, Sionism, Apocalypse, Subversion, Immigration, Conflicts).
2026
Diesen, Glenn. "Jeffrey Sachs and John Mearsheimer. "Spheres of Security to Prevent World War III." Video. YouTube (Glenn Diesen) 16 Oct. 2025.* (Geopolitics; Geostrategy; Imperialism; Security; Game theory; US foreign policy).
2025
_____. "Seyed M. Marandi: Morocco Invades Spain? The U.S. Disciplines Its Proxies." Video. YouTube (Glenn Diesen) 1 Aug. 2026.*
2026
_____. "Jeffrey Sachs: "We Are Already in the Early Days of World War III." Video interview. YouTube (Glenn Diesen) 5 Sept. 2026.* (US foreign policy, Geopolitics, Imperialism, Barbarity, Trump, International politics, CIA, Warmaking, Rule of Law, Kennedy murder, Coups).
2026
García Campa, Francisco. "Un mundo convulso: Claves geopolíticas para entender el siglo XXI." Lecture, Fundación Gustavo Bueno. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 18 Nov. 2025.* (Conflicts, Imperialism, Subversion, Resources).
2025
García López, Tomás, et al. "Insubordinación fundante - Marcelo Gullo, Tomás García López y Marcelino Suárez Ardura – TC 139." Video. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 8 Oct. 2021.* (Imperialism; Rebellion).
2021
Gisbert, Rubén. "La DESTRUCCIÓN de ESPAÑA y sus PROMOTORES con Juan Antonio de Castro." Video. YouTube (Rubén Gisbert) 22 Sept. 2024.* (Capitalism and Globalization; Globalism; Geopolitics; WEF; UN; Planning, Agendas, Big Tech, Investors, US imperialism, Ukraine War, Jens Stoltenberg, NATO; Pedro Sánchez, Against Spain, Madeleine Albright, National Democratic Institute, Independent Diplomat, Catalonian amnesty; United Nations, Agenda 2030, Social engineering, world government, NGOs, Lobbies, Corruption, Antonio Guterres, Democratic Party, Trump, Totalitarianism, Spanish foreign relations and Pedro Sánchez)
https://www.youtube.com/live/FmlaQAP5gs4
2024
_____. "El nuevo orden mundial de EE.UU., China y Rusia ¿Y Europa? – Con Juan Antonio Aguilar." Video interview. YouTube (Rubén Gisbert) 23 April 2025.*
https://www.youtube.com/live/HRKpqPgciMU
2025
Guns, Germs and Steel: 1) Out of Eden. Documentary series, based on Jared Diamond's book. YouTube (Little Dread) 8 May 2013.*
2017
Hernández García, Paloma. "Mitos en la configuración imperial de EEUU. FORJA 139." Video interview with Miguel Ángel Navarro Crego. YouTube (Fortunata y Jacinta) 29 Jan. 2022.*
2022
Mas Arellano, Guillermo. "El verdadero manifiesto Aceleracionista de la Ilustración Oscura (Palantir)." Video. YouTube (Pura Virtud – Cine y Literatura) 28 April 2026.* (Alexander Carp, Deep State, Big Tech, Imperialism, Technocracy, Joshua Haldeman, Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, J.D. Vance; CIA, Surveillance, Steve Bannon, Totalitarianism, Popper, Plato; Nick Land, Meltdown, Eschatology, Agendas, Modernity, Progress).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-lNMTT676M
2026
_____. "Este es un lugar terrible: Desolador panorama de la Modernidad | Pura Virtud." Video. YouTube (Pura Virtud: Cine y Literatura) 3 May 2026.* (Masons, Mafia, Secret service, Elites, Control, PsyOps, Sacrifice, Kubrick, David Lynch, Naomi Klein, CIA, Pedro Bustamante, Capitalism, Trump, organized crime, Deep State, Terrorism, Technocracy, Musk, Thiel, Imperialism, Posthumanism, Agendas, Artificial intelligence, Culture, Religion).
2026
Morás, Nicolás, and Nicolás Martínez Lage. "LA SOCIEDAD SECRETA más PODEROSA y DESCONOCIDA del Mundo: Difunde." Video. YouTube (Los Liberales) 20 Oct. 2022.* (Cecil John Rhodes, 1853; British Empire, Disraeli, Imperialism, Conspiracies; Council on Foreign Relations, "The Round Table Network", Lionel Curtis; Deep state, Chatham House, Institutes of Foreign Affairs; Elites, Bankers and financiers establishment; J. P. Morgan; Rothschild family, William T. Stead, Reginald Brett, Lord Milner, Oxford U, The Pilgrims of Great Britain; Federal Reserve, Debt; Presidents Tuft, Wilson and F.D. Roosevelt; Nelson Aldrich; Belicism, World War I and II; propaganda, conflicts, crises and manipulation; Edward Bernays; League of Nations; United Nations, BIS Bank, funding of Nazism; now of central banks' cryptocurrencies; Lord Balfour and establishment of Israel; UN; World Bank, IMF, Unesco, world order; globalism; Technocracy; Control; Rockefeller family, Bilderberg Club, Trilateral, Club of Rome; Allen Dulles (CFR) and the CIA; Carroll Quigley; Antony C. Sutton).
2022
Negocios TV. "Directo: Putin responde a Trump tras acusarle de ambiciones territoriales más allá de Ucrania." Video. YouTube (Negocios TV) 27 June 2025.*
https://www.youtube.com/live/dwB_zg4tFCo
2025
Oliver, Neil. "Neil Oliver Interviews Kevork Almassian – WW3 & Counting!!!" Video. YouTube (Neil Oliver) 2 Dec. 2024.* (Geopolitics, Syria, Ukraine, Terrorism, Subversion, CIA conspiracies, ISIS, Islamism, Al Quaeda, Ukrainian neo-Nazis, US imperialism, world order).
2024
Ramírez, Lorenzo. "El poder real que controla la Unión Europea desde las sombras." Video interview. YouTube (Inversión Racional Podcast) 18 Dec. 2025.* (Robert Schumann; Jean Monnet, Financiers; Economy, Debt, Tri-Lateral Commission, CFR, Geopolitics, Imperialism; Banks, Money, Commerce, Economy, Debt, Resources, Capitalism, Lobbies, Corruption, Organized crime)
2025
Rodríguez Pardo, José Manuel. "El Destino Manifiesto como ortograma imperial de Estados Unidos." Video lecture. YouTube (fgbuenotv) 14 Jan. 2015.*
2018
Sandbrook, Dominic. "The Best Conversation About History You’ve Ever Heard - Dominic Sandbrook." Video interview. YouTube (Triggernometry) 24 Aug. 2025.* (Imperialism, Guilt, Moralism, Brutality, Idealism, Political correctness, Hitler, Churchill, Stalin, Evil, Massacres).
2025
Villamor, Javier. "Con otra mirada: Historia del globalismo." Interview with Daniel López. 7NN (Feb. 2023).
https://7nn.tv/con-otra-mirada-historia-del-globalismo/
2023
DailyMotion (7NN).*
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ikdv2
2023
See also: Geopolitics; Geostrategy; Empires; British Empire; Spanish Empire, Roman Empire, Colonialism; Literature and Colonialism.
