William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
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William McKinley: “Benevolent Assimilation” Proclamation
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Abstract
Sir: The destruction of the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Manila by the United States naval squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Dewey, followed by the reduction of the city and the surrender of the Spanish forces, practically effected the conquest of the Philippine Islands and the suspension of the Spanish sovereignty therein. With the signature of the treaty of peace between the United States and Spain by their respective plenipotentiaries at Paris on the 10th instant, and as a result of the victories of American arms, the future control, disposition, and government of the Philippine Islands are ceded to the United States.
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