Historic documents of imperialism : the essential primary sources.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Eric Cunningham

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--History--Sources.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 150 pages)

Place of Publication:

Dallas, Texas : Schlager, [2025]

Summary:

This volume explores critical aspects of Imperialism and its ideology through key primary documents, from letters and speeches to government documents.

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.

ISBN:

1-961844-40-0

OCLC:

1547177730