Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa

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Titel: Archives of Empire : Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa

Beteiligte: Arthur, Berriedale Keith [MitwirkendeR]; Arthur, Conan Doyle [MitwirkendeR]; Barbara, Harlow [MitwirkendeR]; Bartle, Frere [MitwirkendeR]; Benjamin, Kidd [MitwirkendeR]; Carter, Mia [HerausgeberIn]; Cecil John, Rhodes [MitwirkendeR]; Charles G., Gordon [MitwirkendeR]; Charles, Darwin [MitwirkendeR]; Charles, Dickens [MitwirkendeR]; David, Livingstone [MitwirkendeR]; Digain, Williams [MitwirkendeR]; Dudley, Kidd [MitwirkendeR]; E. D., Morel [MitwirkendeR]; E. J., Hardy [MitwirkendeR]; Elizabeth, Rundle Charles [MitwirkendeR]; Emily, Hobhouse [MitwirkendeR]; Ernest, Renan [MitwirkendeR]; Evelyn, Baring [MitwirkendeR]; Flora L., Shaw [MitwirkendeR]; Frederick, Lugard [MitwirkendeR]; G. W. F., Hegel [MitwirkendeR]; George, Taubman Goldie [MitwirkendeR]; George, Washington Williams [MitwirkendeR]; H., Rider Haggard [MitwirkendeR]; Harlow, Barbara [HerausgeberIn]; Henry M., Stanley [MitwirkendeR]; Herbert, Spencer [MitwirkendeR]; Hilaire, Belloc [MitwirkendeR]; J. A., Hobson [MitwirkendeR]; James W., Redfield [MitwirkendeR]; John, Buchan [MitwirkendeR]; Joseph Arthur, Gobineau [MitwirkendeR]; Joseph, Conrad [MitwirkendeR]; L. S., Jameson [MitwirkendeR]; Lord Alfred, Milner [MitwirkendeR]; Lytton, Strachey [MitwirkendeR]; M. B., Synge [MitwirkendeR]; Major F. R., Wingate [MitwirkendeR]; Mark, Twain [MitwirkendeR]; Mary, Kingsley [MitwirkendeR]; Matthew, Arnold [MitwirkendeR]; Mia, Carter [MitwirkendeR]; Millicent, Garrett Fawcett [MitwirkendeR]; Olive, Schreiner [MitwirkendeR]; Randolph H. S., Churchill [MitwirkendeR]; Randolph S., Churchill [MitwirkendeR]; Roger, Casement [MitwirkendeR]; Rudolf C., Slatin Pasha [MitwirkendeR]; Rudyard, Kipling [MitwirkendeR]; Thomas, Carlyle [MitwirkendeR]; W. T., Stead [MitwirkendeR]; Walter, Bagehot [MitwirkendeR]; Wilfred S., Blunt [MitwirkendeR]; Wilhelm, Junker [MitwirkendeR]; William, Booth [MitwirkendeR]; William, Pitt the Younger [MitwirkendeR]; William, Wilberforce [MitwirkendeR]; Winston, Churchill [MitwirkendeR]

Erschienen: Durham: Duke University Press, [2003]
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Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (844 p); 34 illus. (10 lineart, 17 b&w photos, 6 maps, 1 table)

Sprache: Englisch

DOI: 10.1515/9780822385035

ISBN: 9780822385035

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Schlagwörter: HISTORY / Europe / General

Art der Reproduktion: [Online-Ausgabe]

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Anmerkungen: In English
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web

Beschreibung: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism -- Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa -- I . THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885: MAKING/MAPPING HISTORY -- Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda -- Chronology of Events -- Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map] -- Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map] -- Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map] -- Excerpts from Heart of Darkness -- Africa -- General Act of the Conference of Berlin -- ‘‘The Black Baby’’ (1894) [illustration] -- International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference -- ‘‘The ‘Irrepressible’ Tourist’’ (1885) [illustration] -- Excerpt from ‘‘The Modern Traveller’’ -- The Fashoda Incident -- Geography and Statecraft -- ‘‘Marchez! Marchand!’’ (1898) [illustration] -- Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886 -- ‘‘Africa Shared Out’’ (1899) [editorial with cartoon] -- II. THE BODY POLITIC : RATIONALIZING RACE -- Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race -- SLAVES -- The African Slave Trade -- William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave Trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa -- The Nigger Question -- The Noble Savage -- SPECIES -- Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties -- Struggle for Existence -- On the Formation of the Races of Man -- Excerpt from ‘‘Darwin’’ -- Comparative Physiognomy -- Excerpts from The Future of Science -- SELF-GOVERNANCE -- Nation-Making -- The Primitive Man—Intellectual -- The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics -- Excerpts from Kafir Socialism -- How the Leopard Got His Spots -- III. THE POLITICAL CORPS -- THE MISSION -- Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce -- Excerpts from Salvation Army Songs -- Dr. Livingstone’s Cambridge Lectures -- Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone -- Livingstone’s Journeys, 1841–1856 [map] -- Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa -- In Memory of Dr. Livingstone -- Dr. Livingstone -- Influence of Christianity upon Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races -- The Bishop and the Philosopher -- Excerpts from The Surplus -- Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook -- The Administration: Lugard and the royal niger company -- Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley -- Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company -- Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company -- Exerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria -- Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous Subjects -- Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa -- The Clash of Cultures -- A Letter to the Editor of ‘‘The New Africa’’ -- Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency -- The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes And The British South Africa Company -- INTRODUCTION Cecil J. Rhodes: Colossus or Caricature? -- Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland -- ‘‘The Rhodes Colossus’’ (1892) [illustration] -- ‘‘My Career Is Only Beginning!’’ (1896) [illustration] -- ‘‘South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes’’ (1896) [map] -- We Abandon Hope -- My Uncle’s Gift Is Many Times Multiplied -- Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881–1900 -- Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa -- Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes -- The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes -- The Burial -- IV. CRISES OF EMPIRE -- Gordon at Khartoum -- Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe -- Chronology of Events -- Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C. B. at Kartoum -- ‘‘At Last!’’ (1885) [illustration] -- ‘‘Too Late!’’ (1885) [illustration] -- Letters to Mary Gordon -- The End of General Gordon -- Relief Expedition -- Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum -- The Desertion of General Gordon -- Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon -- Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan -- The Siege and Fall of Khartum -- Act the Fifth: The End -- ‘‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’’ -- The Graphic Christmas Number, 1887 -- ‘‘Gordon’s Dream—The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum’’ (1887) [illustration] -- The Anglo-Boer war -- Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias -- Excerpt from An English–South African’s View of the Situation -- ‘‘Across the Dark Continent’’ (1899) [illustration] -- Excerpt from A History of the Transvaal -- Political Position in Cape Colony -- The Absent-Minded Beggar -- Mr Thomas Atkins -- D. F. Advertiser. Kimberley, friday, february 16, 1900 -- Excerpt from Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies -- Excerpt from What I Remember -- Prisoners of War -- Methods of Barbarism -- Suggestions for a New Departure -- Further Charges against British Troops -- Excerpt from Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899 -- Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902 -- The Congo -- Introduction: The Congo: Abominations and Denunciations -- The Congo State -- The Congo Report -- The 1903 Diary -- An Open Letter to Roger Casement -- Native Life under Congo State Rule -- Excerpts from History of the Congo Reform Movement -- An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II -- King Leopold’s Soliloquy -- Excerpts from The Crime of the Congo -- ‘‘The Guilt of Delay’’ (1909) [illustration] -- INDEX

A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and far-flung parts of the empire itself. Focusing on a particular region and historical period, each volume in Archives of Empire is organized into sections preceded by brief introductions. Documents including mercantile company charters, parliamentary records, explorers’ accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. Unique resources for teachers and students, these volumes reveal the complexities of nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the “global markets” of the twenty-first century.While focusing on the expansion of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the intense nineteenth-century contest among European nations over Africa’s land, people, and resources. Highlighting the 1885 Berlin Conference in which Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa among themselves, this collection follows British conflicts with other nations over different regions as well as its eventual challenge to Leopold of Belgium’s rule of the Congo. The reports, speeches, treatises, proclamations, letters, and cartoons assembled here include works by Henry M. Stanley, David Livingstone, Joseph Conrad, G. W. F. Hegel, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Conan Doyle. A number of pieces highlight the proliferation of companies chartered to pursue Africa’s gold, diamonds, and oil—particularly Cecil J. Rhodes’s British South Africa Company and Frederick Lugard’s Royal Niger Company. Other documents describe debacles on the continent—such as the defeat of General Gordon in Khartoum and the Anglo-Boer War—and the criticism of imperial maneuvers by proto-human rights activists including George Washington Williams, Mark Twain, Olive Schreiner, and E.D. Morel

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