Imperialism in the Modern World: Sources and Interpretations (Paperback)

Introduction: The World on the Eve of High Imperialism

Introduction

1. Jules Ferry, a€œSpeech before the French Chamber of Deputies.a€? (1884)

2. Image: a€œGrowing Markets for our Goodsa€?

3. Rudyard Kipling, a€œWhite Mana€™s Burden.a€?

4. Image: a€œPeara€™s Soap Ada€?

5. Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress

6. Image: a€œCrystal Palacea€?

7. Karl Marx, a€œThe British Rule in Indiaa€?

8. a€œEmperor Meijia€™s Letter to President Grant on Iwakura Mission, 1871.a€?

9. Joseph Conrad, a€œAn Outpost of Progress.a€?

10. Image: British Officer Reclining

11. Arthur James Balfour, Speech to the British House of Commons on the a€œProblems with which we have to deal in Egypt.a€? 13 June 1910.

12. a€œAn Ottoman Government Decree Defines the Official Notion of the a€?Moderna€™ Citizena€?

13. Image: Victorian Wallpaper

Suggested Further Readings

Introduction

1. Image: Tippooa€™s Tiger

2. M. K. Gandhi, a€œCivilisation.a€?

3. Ho Chi Minh, a€œEquality.a€?

4. Godfey N. Uzoigwe, Britain and the Conquest of Africa.

5. Jose Marti, a€œMother America.a€?

6. Sayyid Jamal ad-Din (al-Afghani), a€œLecture on Teaching and Learning.a€?

7. E. D. Morel, The Black Mana€™s Burden.

8. Aime Cesaire, Discourse on Colonialism.

9. Jose Rizal, Noli Me Tangere.

10. Vladimir I. Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism.

11. Multatuli, Max Havelaar

Suggested Further Readings

Part III: Tools of Empire

Introduction

1. Image: Perrya€™s ship

2. Michael Adas, a€œMachines as the Measure of Men .

3. Image: a€œEast African Transport old and new stylea€?

4. Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game: The Struggle for Empire in Central Asia.

5. J. Clinton Cunningham, Products of the Empire.

6. Daniel Headrick, a€œMalaria, Quinine, and the Penetration of Africa.

7. Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America.

8. L.S. Senghor, a€œFrench-Language of Culture.a€?

9. a€œIndian Commissioner Thomas J. Morgan on the Need for Compulsory Education, 1892.a€? (North American Native Americans)

10. Image: a€œRailroads and Cooliesa€?

11. Theodore Christlieb, Protestant Foreign Missions: Their Present State.

12. Image: Belgian Territorial Agent

13. Kita Ikki, a€œAn Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan.a€?

14. Ngugi wa Thionga€™o, a€œKimathi on law as a tool of oppression.a€?

Suggested Further Readings

Part IV: Reconfigurations: The Colonial World (circa 1870s to the 1950s)

Introduction

1. Image: a€œEmperor Meijia€?

2. Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized.

3. a€œSummary of Orders.a€? (Martial Law in the Punjab)

4. Charles Allen, Plain Tales from the Raj: Images of India in the Twentieth Century.

5. a€œA Bill to Restrain the Solemnization of Child Marriages.a€? (India)

6. Huda Shaarawi, Harem Years.

7. Onitsha Market Literature. a€œBeautiful Maria and the Act of True Love.a€? (Africa)

8. Chinua Achebe, a€œNamed for Victoria: Queen of England.a€?

9. Liang Qichao, a€œInaugural Statement for the Eastern Times.a€? (China)

10. Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson.

11. Madelon Lulofs, Rubber.

12. Image: a€œCoffee Plantationa€?

13. Image: a€œThe African and Oriental Bureau and Buying Agency,a€? African Times and Orient Review.

14. Jose Carlos Mariategui, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality.

15. Image: a€œAdvertisement for the Sontag Hotel in Seoul,a€? Terrya€™s Japanese Empire.

16. Red Man: An Illustrated Magazine printed by Indians. (North America)

17. Maps of colonized cities

Suggested Further Readings

Introduction

1. Harry Thuku, Autobiography.

2. J. E. Casely Hayford, Ethiopia Unbound.

3. Orishatuke Faduma, a€œAfrican Education in Sierra Leone.a€?

4. Li Dazhao, a€œThe Victory of Bolshevism.a€?

5. Martin Buber, a€œAn Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi.a€?

6. M. K. Ghandi, a€œSatyagraha and Fearlessness.a€?

7. Image: a€œMadras Protesta€?

8. Claude McKay, a€œPassive Resistance.a€?

9. Manmohini Sutshi Sahgal, An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls her Life.

10. Image: a€œAlgerian Woman Fightersa€?

11. Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir.

12. Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare.

13. Image: a€œCuban Protest with Chea€™s Imagea€?

14. Liliuokalani, Hawaiia€™s Story.

15. a€œSpeech by President Soekarno at the Opening of the Asian-African Conference.a€? Bandung, Indonesia. 18 April 1955.

Suggested Further Readings

Introduction

1. Ho Chi Minh, a€œDeclaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nama€?

2. Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan. (Selection)

3. Document on the Non-Aligned Movement from the 1970s

4. Gamal Abdul Nasser, a€œThe Arab Revolution.a€?

5. Abd el-Kadra€™s leadership of the Algerians against the French. (Document)

6. Amilcar Cabral, a€œNational Liberation and Culture.a€?

7. Joe Kane, a€œMoi goes to Washington.a€?

8. Document from the American Indian Movement (North America in the 1970s)

9. Liberation Theology in Latin America (Document)

10. Tsitsi Dangarambga, Nervous Conditions. (Selection).

11. Nelson Mandela, a€œThe South African a€?Freedom Charter.a€™a€?

12. Selection on global feminism and liberation movements

13. Map of the World, 2000

Suggested Further Readings

Part VII: Further Reconfigurations: The Post-Colonial World (1960s to the Present)

Introduction

1. Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. (Selection)

2. Mehdi Charef, Tea in the Harem. (Selection)

3. Zand Dokht, a€œThe Revolution that Failed Women.a€? (Iranian Revolution)

4. D.K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa 1945-1980: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development. (Selection)

5. Jane Kramer, Unsettling Europe. (Selection)

6. Excerpts from the Dictionary of Indian English and the Oxford English Dictionary.

7. Ian McAuley, Guide to Ethnic London. (Selection)

8. DATAa€“Debt, AIDS, and Trade in Africa (Documents)

9. The Kyoto Accord (Document)

10. Walter LeFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: the United States in Central America. (Selection)

11. Buchi Emecheta, Head Above Water (Selection)

12. a€œWhata€™s Right with Africa,a€? Current History (May 1994)

13. Documents from the World Trade Organization and the World Bank

14. Edward Said, commentary on Islam in America (a post-9/11 discussion)

Suggested Further Readings