Historic Documents of Imperialism
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This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of imperialism through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
This volume explores critical aspects of the rise and expansion of imperialism through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents. Overview articles provide important context to the era, while the curated selection of documents helps make the volume an important starting point for historical research.
Contents
New Imperialism
Cecil Rhodes: Confession of Faith
Constitution of the Hawaiian Islands
Bernhard von Bülow on Germany’s “Place in the Sun”
Alfred Thayer Mahan: “Current Fallacies upon Naval Subjects”
William McKinley: Message to Congress about Cuban Intervention
William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
John Hay: First “Open Door” Note to Andrew D. White
William McKinley: Statement to the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church
Emilio Aguinaldo’s Case against the United States
Eduard Bernstein: Evolutionary Socialism
Mary Kingsley: West African Studies
Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”
Karl Pearson: National Life from the Standpoint of Science
Mark Twain: “To the Person Sitting in Darkness”
Boxer Protocol
D’Arcy Concession
Ernest Crosby: “The Real White Man's Burden”
Panama Canal Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
Edmund Dene (E.D.) Morel: The Black Man’s Burden
Resolutions of the National Congress of British West Africa
George Orwell: Burmese Days
Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Gamal Abdel Nasser on the Nationalization of the Suez Canal
John Foster Dulles: Address to the United Nations on the Suez Crisis
Che Guevara: Address to the United Nations General Assembly