Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Topical Table of Contents
Maps
Preface
Introduction
Part I The Imperialists
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Jules Ferry, Le Tonkin et la Mère-Patrie (Tonkin and the Motherland)
	Visual Source: Jungles To-Day Are Gold Mines To-Morrow
	Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden”
	Visual Source: “Pears’ Soap Advertisement”
	Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
	Visual Source: “The Indian Court at the Great Exhibition”
	Karl Marx, “The British Rule in India”
	“Emperor Meiji’s Letter to President Grant on Iwakura Mission, 1871”
	Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress”
	Visual Source: “British Officer Reclining”
	Arthur James Balfour, “Problems with Which We Have to Deal in Egypt”
	“An Ottoman Government Decree Defines the Official Notion of the ‘Modern’ Citizen, June 19, 1870”
	Visual Source: “Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee—Victorian Wallpaper”
	Mary Seacole, Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
	Further Resources
Part II The Anti-Imperialists
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Visual Source: “Tippoo’s Tiger”
	M. K. Gandhi, “Civilization”
	Visual Source: “Gandhi in Western Clothing”
	Ho Chi Minh, “Equality!”
	Woodrow Wilson, “Fourteen Points Speech”
	Godfey N. Uzoigwe, Britain and the Conquest of Africa
	José Martí, “Mother America”
	Sayyid Jamāl ad-Dīn al-Afghānī, "Lecture on Teaching and Learning"
	Edward D. Morel, The Black Man’s Burden
	Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
	José Rizal, Noli me Tangere (The Social Cancer)
	Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
	Visual Source: “Lenin Giving a Speech”
	Multatuli, Max Havelaar: Or the Coffee Auctions of the Dutch Trading Company
	“Chief Seattle’s Oration of the 1850s”
	Further Resources
Part III Tools of Empire
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Visual Source: “Perry’s Ship”
	Michael Adas, “Machine as Civilizer”
	Visual Source: “East African Transport, Old and New Style”
	Peter Hopkirk, “Spies Along the Silk Road”
	J. Clinton Cunningham, Products of the Empire
	Daniel Headrick, “Malaria, Quinine, and the Penetration of Africa”
	Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
	Léopold S. Senghor, “French—Language of Culture”
	Thomas J. Morgan, “Compulsory Education”
	Visual Source: “Railroads and Coolies”
	Theodore Christlieb, Protestant Foreign Missions: Their Present State
	Visual Source: “Belgian Territorial Agent”
	Kita Ikki, “An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan”
	Ngugi wa Thiong’o, “Kimathi on Law as a Tool of Oppression”
	Visual Source: “The Secret of England’s Greatness”
	Further Resources
Part IV Reconfigurations: The Colonial World
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Visual Source: “Meiji Emperor”
	Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized
	“Summary of Orders”
	“Child Marriage Restraint Act”
	Attiya Hanim Saqqaf, “Portrait of the Hard Life of a Woman”
	Felix N. Stephen, “Beautiful Maria in the Act of True Love”
	Chinua Achebe, “Named for Victoria, Queen of England”
	Liang Qichao, “Inaugural Statement for the Eastern Times”
	Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson
	Madelon H. Lulofs, Rubber
	Visual Source: “Coffee Plantation”
	Lady Barker, Station Life in New Zealand
	Visual Source: “The African and Oriental Bureau and Buying Agency (Advertisement)”
	José Carlos Mariátegui, “Outline of the Economic Evolution”
	Visual Source: “Advertisement for the Sontag Hotel”
	Selections from The Red Man: An Illustrated Magazine Printed by Indians
	Maps of Cairo in the Mid-Nineteth Century and Singapore
	Further Resources
Part V Empire's Tools for Liberation
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Harry Thuku, “Nairobi”
	J. E. Casely Hayford, “Race Emancipation—Particular Considerations: African Nationality”
	Orishatuke Faduma, “African Negro Education”
	Li Dazhao, “The Victory of Bolshevism”
	Martin Buber, “From an Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi (1939)”
	M. K. Gandhi, “Satyagraha in South Africa”
	Visual Source: “Madras Protest”
	Claude McKay, “Passive Resistance”
	Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal, An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls Her Life
	Visual Source: “Algerian Women Fighters”
	Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir
	Brian Loveman and Thomas M. Davies, Jr. (Eds.), Che Guevara: Guerilla Warfare
	Visual Source: “Cuban Protest”
	Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story
	Indonesian President Soekarno, “Speech at the Opening of the Asian-African Conference”
	Further Resources
Part VI Decolonization
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Ho Chi Minh, “Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam”
	Visual Source: “Algerian Women Voting”
	Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan
	Kim Il-sung, “The Newly–Emerging Forces Should Unite Under the Banner of Independence Against Imperialism”
	Gamal Abdul Nasser, “The Arab Revolution”
	An AIM Leader, Voices from Wounded Knee, 1973
	Amílcar Cabral, “National Liberation and Culture”
	Nelson Mandela, “The South African Freedom Charter”
	Visual Source: “Namibian Mural”
	Joe Kane, Savages
	Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions
	Visual Source: “Indonesian Coin”
	Gustavo Gutiérrez, A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, and Salvation
	Further Resources
Part VII Further Reconfigurations: The Post-Colonial World
	Timeline
	Introduction
	Mhedi Charef, Tea in the Harem
	Manny “The Revolution That Failed Women”
	Visual Source: “French Muslim Girl”
	D. K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa 1945–80: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development
	Jane Kramer, Unsettling Europe
	Henry Yule and A. C. Burnell, Eds., “Definitions from Hobson-Jobson”
	Ian McAuley, Guide to Ethnic London
	Visual Source: “Greenpeace Protest at the Taj Mahal”
	Edward W. Said, “The Clash of Ignorance”
	Buchi Emecheta, “The Miracle”
	Michael Chege, “What’s Right with Africa?”
	“Understanding Climate Change: A Beginner’s Guide to the United Nations Framework Convention”
	Visual Source: “WTO Protest”
	Map: “Western Europe, Muslim Population c. 2005”
	“AIDS Pandemic”
	Visual Source: “Masai Herdsmen”
	Further Resources