Imperialism: Selected documents

Introduction: Imperialism as Intellectual History.

I. THE “SCIENTIFIC” Roots: NINETEENTH-CENTURY RACISM.
 1. Georges Cuvier and the Varieties of Mankind.
 2. Robert Knox on the Dark Races of Men.
 3. Charles Darwin on Racial Extinction.
 4. Benjamin Kidd and the Control of the Tropics.
II. IMPERIALISM AND THE LAW OF NATIONS.
 5. Emer de Vattel on the Occupation of Territory.
 6. John Westlake on the Title to Sovereignty.
 7. The Mandate System of the League of Nations.
 8. Trusteeship Under the United Nations.
III. THE APPLICATION OF PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC RACISM.
 9. Carl Peters on His Civilizing Mission.
 10. Leopold de Saussure as an Opponent of Assimilation.
 11. Charles Temple on Relations Between Dominant and Dependent Races.
 12. Sydney Olivier on Race and Empire.
IV. THE ECONOMICS OF EMPIRE.
 13. Thomas Carlyle on the Nigger Question.
 14. Earl Grey and Regressive Taxation for Tropical Colonies.
 15. Louis Vignon on the Exploitation of Empire.
V. THE “CIVILIZING MISSION”.
 16. Thomas Babington Macaulay on Education for India.
 17. The British Privy Council Considers Negro Education.
 18. Rufus Anderson and the Theory of Missions.
 19. Joost Van Vollenhoven and Educational Planning for French West Africa.
 20. Lord Lugard on Educational Planning for Nigeria.
VI. THE EXERCISE OF IMPERIUM.
 21. Lord Lugard on Indirect Rule.
 22. Delavignette on French Administration in West Africa.
VII. THE RIGHT TO RULE.
 23. The Aborigines Committee and the Morality of Empire.
 24. Jules Harmand on the Morality of Empire and the Policy of Association.
 25. Lugard on the “Dual Mandate”.
 26. J. A. Hobson, Trusteeship Under International Control.

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