Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”
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Rudyard Kipling: “The White Man's Burden”
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Abstract
Take up the White Man's burden—Send forth the best ye breed—Go bind your sons to exileTo serve your captives’ need;To wait in heavy harness,On fluttered folk and wild—Your new-caught, sullen peoples,Half-devil and half-child.
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