Imperialism in the Modern World Sources and Interpretations

Imperialism in the Modern World combines narrative, primary and secondary sources, and visual documents to examine global relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The three co-editors, Professors Bowman, Chiteji, and Greene, have taught for many years global history classes in a variety of institutions. They wrote Imperialism in the Modern World to solve the problem of allowing teachers to combine primary and secondary texts easily and systematically to follow major themes in global history (some readers use primary materials exclusively. Some focus on secondary arguments). This book is more focused than other readers on the markets for those teachers who are offering more specialized world history courses - one important trend in global history is away from simply trying to cover everything to teaching real connections in more chronologically and thematically focused courses. The reader also provides a genuine diversity of global perspectives and invites students to study seriously world history from a critical framework. Too many readers offer a smorgasbord approach to world history that leaves students dazed and confused. This reader avoids that approach and will therefore solve many problems that teachers have in constructing and teaching world history courses at the introductory or upper-division levels. The reader will allow show students how to read historical documents through a hands-on demonstration in the introduction. The book also incorporates images as visual documents. Finally, the book conceives of global history in the widest possible terms; it contains pieces on political, diplomatic, economic, and military history, to be sure, but it also has selections on technology, medicine, women, the environment, social changes, and cultural patterns. Other readers can not match this text's breadth because they are chronologically and thematically so extended.

Introduction: The World on the Eve of High Imperialism

Part I: The Imperialists

Introduction

1. Jules Ferry, 'Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies.' (1884)

2. Image: 'Growing Markets for our Goods'

3. Rudyard Kipling, 'White Man's Burden.'

4. Image: 'Pear's Soap Ad'

5. Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress

6. Image: 'Crystal Palace'

7. Karl Marx, 'The British Rule in India'

8. 'Emperor Meiji's Letter to President Grant on Iwakura Mission, 1871.'

9. Joseph Conrad, 'An Outpost of Progress.'

10. Image: British Officer Reclining

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

12. 'An Ottoman Government Decree Defines the Official Notion of the Modern' Citizen'

13. Image: Victorian Wallpaper

Suggested Further Readings

Part II: The Anti-Imperialists

Introduction

1. Image: Tippoo's Tiger

2. M. K. Gandhi, 'Civilisation.'

3. Ho Chi Minh, 'Equality.'

4. Godfey N. Uzoigwe, Britainand the Conquest of Africa.

5. Jose Marti, 'Mother America.'

6. Sayyid Jamal ad-Din (al-Afghani), 'Lecture on Teaching and Learning.'

7. E. D. Morel, The Black Man'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: Perry's ship

2. Michael Adas, 'Machines as the Measure of Men .

3. Image: 'East African Transport old and new style'

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

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

6. Daniel Headrick, 'Malaria, Quinine, and the Penetration of Africa.

7. Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America.

8. L.S. Senghor, 'French-Language of Culture.'

9. 'Indian Commissioner Thomas J. Morgan on the Need for Compulsory Education, 1892.' (North American Native Americans)

10. Image: 'Railroads and Coolies'

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

12. Image: Belgian Territorial Agent

13. Kita Ikki, 'An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan.'

14. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, 'Kimathi on law as a tool of oppression.'

Suggested Further Readings

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

Introduction

1. Image: 'Emperor Meiji'

2. Albert Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized.

3. 'Summary of Orders.' (Martial Law in the Punjab)

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

5. 'A Bill to...