Archives of Empire : Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa /

A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts th...

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Otros Autores: Arnold, Matthew (Contribuidor), Bagehot, Walter (Contribuidor), Baring, Evelyn (Contribuidor), Belloc, Hilaire (Contribuidor), Berriedale Keith, Arthur (Contribuidor), Blunt, Wilfred S. (Contribuidor), Booth, William (Contribuidor), Buchan, John (Contribuidor), Carlyle, Thomas (Contribuidor), Carter, Mia (Contribuidor, Editor ), Casement, Roger (Contribuidor), Churchill, Randolph H. S. (Contribuidor), Churchill, Randolph S. (Contribuidor), Churchill, Winston (Contribuidor), Conan Doyle, Arthur (Contribuidor), Conrad, Joseph (Contribuidor), Darwin, Charles (Contribuidor), Dickens, Charles (Contribuidor), Frere, Bartle (Contribuidor), Garrett Fawcett, Millicent (Contribuidor), Gobineau, Joseph Arthur (Contribuidor), Gordon, Charles G. (Contribuidor), Hardy, E. J. (Contribuidor), Harlow, Barbara (Contribuidor, Editor ), Hegel, G. W. F. (Contribuidor), Hobhouse, Emily (Contribuidor), Hobson, J. A. (Contribuidor), Jameson, L. S. (Contribuidor), Junker, Wilhelm (Contribuidor), Kidd, Benjamin (Contribuidor), Kidd, Dudley (Contribuidor), Kingsley, Mary (Contribuidor), Kipling, Rudyard (Contribuidor), Livingstone, David (Contribuidor), Lugard, Frederick (Contribuidor), Milner, Lord Alfred (Contribuidor), Morel, E. D. (Contribuidor), Pitt the Younger, William (Contribuidor), Redfield, James W. (Contribuidor), Renan, Ernest (Contribuidor), Rhodes, Cecil John (Contribuidor), Rider Haggard, H. (Contribuidor), Rundle Charles, Elizabeth (Contribuidor), Schreiner, Olive (Contribuidor), Shaw, Flora L. (Contribuidor), Slatin Pasha, Rudolf C. (Contribuidor), Spencer, Herbert (Contribuidor), Stanley, Henry M. (Contribuidor), Stead, W. T. (Contribuidor), Strachey, Lytton (Contribuidor), Synge, M. B. (Contribuidor), Taubman Goldie, George (Contribuidor), Twain, Mark (Contribuidor), Washington Williams, George (Contribuidor), Wilberforce, William (Contribuidor), Williams, Digain (Contribuidor), Wingate, Major F. R. (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2003]
Colección:Archives of empire : 18 ; 2
Temas:
HISTORY / Europe / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism
  • Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa
  • I . THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885: MAKING/MAPPING HISTORY
  • Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda
  • Chronology of Events
  • Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map]
  • Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map]
  • Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map]
  • Excerpts from Heart of Darkness
  • Africa
  • General Act of the Conference of Berlin
  • ''The Black Baby'' (1894) [illustration]
  • International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference
  • ''The 'Irrepressible' Tourist'' (1885) [illustration]
  • Excerpt from ''The Modern Traveller''
  • The Fashoda Incident
  • Geography and Statecraft
  • ''Marchez! Marchand!'' (1898) [illustration]
  • Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882-1886
  • ''Africa Shared Out'' (1899) [editorial with cartoon]
  • II. THE BODY POLITIC : RATIONALIZING RACE
  • Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race
  • SLAVES
  • The African Slave Trade
  • William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave Trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa
  • The Nigger Question
  • The Noble Savage
  • SPECIES
  • Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties
  • Struggle for Existence
  • On the Formation of the Races of Man
  • Excerpt from ''Darwin''
  • Comparative Physiognomy
  • Excerpts from The Future of Science
  • SELF-GOVERNANCE
  • Nation-Making
  • The Primitive Man-Intellectual
  • The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics
  • Excerpts from Kafir Socialism
  • How the Leopard Got His Spots
  • III. THE POLITICAL CORPS
  • THE MISSION
  • Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce
  • Excerpts from Salvation Army Songs
  • Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures
  • Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone
  • Livingstone's Journeys, 1841-1856 [map]
  • Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa
  • In Memory of Dr. Livingstone
  • Dr. Livingstone
  • Influence of Christianity upon Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races
  • The Bishop and the Philosopher
  • Excerpts from The Surplus
  • Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook
  • The Administration: Lugard and the royal niger company
  • Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley
  • Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company
  • Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company
  • Exerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria
  • Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous Subjects
  • Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa
  • The Clash of Cultures
  • A Letter to the Editor of ''The New Africa''
  • Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency
  • The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes And The British South Africa Company
  • INTRODUCTION Cecil J. Rhodes: Colossus or Caricature?
  • Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland
  • ''The Rhodes Colossus'' (1892) [illustration]
  • ''My Career Is Only Beginning!'' (1896) [illustration]
  • ''South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes'' (1896) [map]
  • We Abandon Hope
  • My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied
  • Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881-1900
  • Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa
  • Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes
  • The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes
  • The Burial
  • IV. CRISES OF EMPIRE
  • Gordon at Khartoum
  • Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe
  • Chronology of Events
  • Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C. B. at Kartoum
  • ''At Last!'' (1885) [illustration]
  • ''Too Late!'' (1885) [illustration]
  • Letters to Mary Gordon
  • The End of General Gordon
  • Relief Expedition
  • Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum
  • The Desertion of General Gordon
  • Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon
  • Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan
  • The Siege and Fall of Khartum
  • Act the Fifth: The End
  • ''Fuzzy-Wuzzy''
  • The Graphic Christmas Number, 1887
  • ''Gordon's Dream-The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum'' (1887) [illustration]
  • The Anglo-Boer war
  • Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias
  • Excerpt from An English-South African's View of the Situation
  • ''Across the Dark Continent'' (1899) [illustration]
  • Excerpt from A History of the Transvaal
  • Political Position in Cape Colony
  • The Absent-Minded Beggar
  • Mr Thomas Atkins
  • D. F. Advertiser. Kimberley, friday, february 16, 1900
  • Excerpt from Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies
  • Excerpt from What I Remember
  • Prisoners of War
  • Methods of Barbarism
  • Suggestions for a New Departure
  • Further Charges against British Troops
  • Excerpt from Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899
  • Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902
  • The Congo
  • Introduction: The Congo: Abominations and Denunciations
  • The Congo State
  • The Congo Report
  • The 1903 Diary
  • An Open Letter to Roger Casement
  • Native Life under Congo State Rule
  • Excerpts from History of the Congo Reform Movement
  • An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II
  • King Leopold's Soliloquy
  • Excerpts from The Crime of the Congo
  • ''The Guilt of Delay'' (1909) [illustration]
  • INDEX

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