Bowman, William; Chiteji, Frank; Greene, J. Megan

• Introduction: The World on the Eve of High ImperialismPart I: The ImperialistsIntroduction 1. Jules Ferry, “Speech before the French Chamber of Deputies.†(1884)2. Image: “Growing Markets for our Goodsâ€3. Rudyard Kipling, “White Man’s Burden.â€4. Image: “Pear’s Soap Adâ€5. Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress6. Image: “Crystal Palaceâ€7. Karl Marx, “The British Rule in Indiaâ€8. “Emperor Meiji’s Letter to President Grant on Iwakura Mission, 1871.â€9. Joseph Conrad, “An Outpost of Progress.â€10. Image: British Officer Reclining11. 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’ Citizenâ€13. Image: Victorian WallpaperSuggested Further ReadingsPart II: The Anti-ImperialistsIntroduction1. Image: Tippoo’s Tiger2. M. K. Gandhi, “Civilisation.†3. Ho Chi Minh, “Equality.â€4. Godfey N. Uzoigwe, Britain and the Conquest of Africa.5. Jose Marti, “Mother America.â€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 HavelaarSuggested Further ReadingsPart III: Tools of EmpireIntroduction1. Image: Perry’s ship2. Michael Adas, “Machines as the Measure of Men .3. Image: “East African Transport old and new styleâ€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.â€9. “Indian Commissioner Thomas J. Morgan on the Need for Compulsory Education, 1892.†(North American Native Americans)10. Image: “Railroads and Cooliesâ€11. Theodore Christlieb, Protestant Foreign Missions: Their Present State.12. Image: Belgian Territorial Agent13. Kita Ikki, “An Outline Plan for the Reorganization of Japan.â€14. Ngugi wa Thiong’o, “Kimathi on law as a tool of oppression.â€Suggested Further ReadingsPart IV: Reconfigurations: The Colonial World (circa 1870s to the 1950s)Introduction1. 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 Restrain the Solemnization of Child Marriages.†(India) 6. Huda Shaarawi, Harem Years.7. Onitsha Market Literature. “Beautiful Maria and the Act of True Love.†(Africa) 8. Chinua Achebe, “Named for Victoria: Queen of England.†9. Liang Qichao, “Inaugural Statement for the Eastern Times.†(China) 10. Joyce Cary, Mister Johnson. 11. Madelon Lulofs, Rubber. 12. Image: “Coffee Plantation†13. Image: “The African and Oriental Bureau and Buying Agency,†African Times and Orient Review. 14. Jose Carlos Mariategui, Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality. 15. Image: “Advertisement for the Sontag Hotel in Seoul,†Terry’s Japanese Empire. 16. Red Man: An Illustrated Magazine printed by Indians. (North America) 17. Maps of colonized citiesSuggested Further ReadingsPart V: Empire’s Tools for LiberationIntroduction1. Harry Thuku, Autobiography. 2. J. E. Casely Hayford, Ethiopia Unbound. 3. Orishatuke Faduma, “African Education in Sierra Leone.†4. Li Dazhao, “The Victory of Bolshevism.†5. Martin Buber, “An Open Letter to Mahatma Gandhi.†6. M. K. Ghandi, “Satyagraha and Fearlessness.†7. Image: “Madras Protest†8. Claude McKay, “Passive Resistance.†9. Manmohini Sutshi Sahgal, An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls her Life. 10. Image: “Algerian Woman Fighters†11. Truong Nhu Tang, A Viet Cong Memoir. 12. Che Guevara, Guerilla Warfare. 13. Image: “Cuban Protest with Che’s Image†14. Liliuokalani, Hawaii’s Story. 15. “Speech by President Soekarno at the Opening of the Asian-African Conference.†Bandung, Indonesia. 18 April 1955.Suggested Further ReadingsPart VI: Decolonization Introduction1. Ho Chi Minh, “Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Viet-Nam†2. Kushwant Singh, Train to Pakistan. (Selection) 3. Document on the Non-Aligned Movement from the 1970s 4. Gamal Abdul Nasser, “The Arab Revolution.†5. Abd el-Kadr’s leadership of the Algerians against the French. (Document) 6. Amilcar Cabral, “National Liberation and Culture.†7. Joe Kane, “Moi goes to Washington.†8. Document from the American Indian Movement (North America in the 1970s) 9. Liberation Theology in Latin America (Document) 10. Tsitsi Dangarambga, Nervous Conditions. (Selection). 11. Nelson Mandela, “The South African ‘Freedom Charter.’†12. Selection on global feminism and liberation movements 13. Map of the World, 2000Suggested Further ReadingsPart VII: Further Reconfigurations: The Post-Colonial World (1960s to the Present)Introduction1. Kwame Nkrumah, Neo-Colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism. (Selection) 2. Mehdi Charef, Tea in the Harem. (Selection) 3. Zand Dokht, “The Revolution that Failed Women.†(Iranian Revolution) 4. D.K. Fieldhouse, Black Africa 1945-1980: Economic Decolonization and Arrested Development. (Selection) 5. Jane Kramer, Unsettling Europe. (Selection) 6. Excerpts from the Dictionary of Indian English and the Oxford English Dictionary. 7. Ian McAuley, Guide to Ethnic London. (Selection) 8. DATA–Debt, AIDS, and Trade in Africa (Documents) 9. The Kyoto Accord (Document) 10. Walter LeFeber, Inevitable Revolutions: the United States in Central America. (Selection) 11. Buchi Emecheta, Head Above Water (Selection) 12. “What’s Right with Africa,†Current History (May 1994) 13. Documents from the World Trade Organization and the World Bank 14. Edward Said, commentary on Islam in America (a post-9/11 discussion)Suggested Further ReadingsConclusion