Harlow / Carter Archives of Empire

Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa
1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8503-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 2, 844 Seiten

Reihe: Archives of empire

A collection of original writings and documents from British colonialism in Africa.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harlow, Barbara

Carter, Mia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xv

General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism xvii

Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa 1

I. The Berlin Conference 1885: Making/ Mapping History

Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda 13

Chronology of Events 16

Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map] 17

Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map] 18

Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map] 19

Joseph Conrad, Excerpts from Heart of Darkness (1898/99) 20

G. W. F. Hegel, "Africa" (1822) 21

General Act of the Conference of Berlin (1885) 28

"The Black Baby" (1894) [illustration] 29

Arthur Berriedale Keith, "International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference" (1919) 47

"The 'Irrepressible' Tourist" (1885) [illustration] 59

Hilaire Belloc, Excerpt from "The Modern Traveller" [1898] 60

Winston Churchill, "The Fashoda Incident" (1899) 65

Lord Alfred Milner, "Geography and Statecraft" (1907) 76

"Marchez! Marchand!" (1898) [illustration] 77

Dr. Wilhelm Junker, Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882-1886, with etching (1892) 79

"Africa Shared Out" (1899) [editorial with cartoon] 81

II. The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race

Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race 85

Slaves 91

William Wilberforce, "The African Slave Trade" (1789) 93

William Pitt the Younger, "William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa" (1792) 100

Thomas Carlyle, "The Nigger Question" (1849) 108

Charles Dickens, "The Noble Savage" (1853) [with classified advertisement from the Illustrated London News] 134

Species 141

Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau, "Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties" (1856) 143

Charles Darwin, "Struggle for Existence" (1871) 153

Charles Darwin, "On the Formation of the Races of Man" (1871) 160

Digain Williams, Excerpt from "Darwin" (1922) 167

James W. Redfield, "Comparative Physiognomy" (1852) 169

Ernest Renan, Excerpts from The Future of Science (1893) 178

Self Governance 187

Walter Bagehot, "Nation-Making" (1869) 189

Herbert Spencer, "The Primitive Man---Intellectual" (1906) 195

Benjamin Kidd, "The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics" (1898) 208

Dudley Kidd, Excerpts from Kafir Socialism (1908) 222

Rudyard Kipling, "How the Leopard Got His Spots" (1902) 232

III. The Political Corps

The Mission 241

Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce 243

William Booth, Salvation Army Songs (n.d.) 247

David Livingstone, Dr. Livingstone's Cambridge Lectures (1858) 253

Henry M. Stanley, Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone (1872) 278

Livingstone's Journeys, 1841-1856 [map] 279

M.B. Synge, "Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa" (1908) 300

Elizabeth Rundle Charles (?), "In Memory of Dr. Livingstone" (1874) 304

Sir Bartle Frere, "Dr. Livingstone" (1874) 306

Count Joseph Arthur Gobineau, "Influence of Christianity upon Moral and intellectual Diversity of Races" (1856) 319

Matthew Arnold, "The Bishop and the Philosopher" (1863) 328

International Emigration Office, Excerpts from The Surplus (1909) 350

Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook (1924) 358

The Administration: Lugard and the Royal Niger Company 365

Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley 367

"Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, later called the Royal Niger Company" (1884) 372

George Taubman Goldie and Frederick Lugard, Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company (1894) 380

Frederick Lugard, Excerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria (1894-1895,1898) 388

Frederick Lugard, "Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous subjects" (1913-1918) 402

Frederick Lugard, Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa (1922) 417

Mary Kingsley, "The Clash of Cultures" (1901) 439

Mary Kingsley, "A Letter to the Editor of 'The New Africa'" (n.d.) 457

Flora L. Shaw (Lady Lugard), Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency (1905) 460

The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes and the British South Africa Company 473

Introduction: Cecil J. Rhodes; Colossus or Caricature? 475

Olive Schreiner, Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland (1897) 478

"The Rhodes Colossus" (1892) [illustration] 480

"My Career Is Only Beginning!" (1896) [illustration] 481

"South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes" (1896) [map] 483

H. Rider Haggard, "We Abandon Hope" (1885) 484

John Buchan, "My Uncle's Gift Is Many Times Multiplied" (1910) 492

Cecil John Rhodes, Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881-1900 (1900) 496

Lord Randolph S. Churchill, Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa (1895) 529

Dr. L. S. Jameson. "Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes" (1897) 531

"The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes" (1902) 538

Rudyard Kipling, "The Burial" (1902) 560

IV. Crises of Empire

Gordon at Khartoum 565

Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe 566

Chronology of Events 569

Charles G. Gordon, Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. B. Gordon, G. B. at Kartoum (1885) 569

"At Last!" (1885) [illustration] 572

"Too Late!" (1885) [illustration] 573

Queen Victoria, Letters to Mary Gordon (1890) 578

Lytton Strachey, "The End of General Gordon" (1918) 580

Lord Cromer (Evelyn Baring), "Relief Expedition' (1908) 583

Wilfred S. Blunt, Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum (1911) 591

Randolph H. S. Churchill, "The Desertion of General Gordon" (1884) 596

Lord Wolseley, Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon (1885) 600

Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha, Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan (1896) 602

Major F. R. Wingate, "The Siege and Fall of Khartum" (1892) 603

John Buchan, "Act the Fifth: The End" (1934) 616

Rudyard Kipling, "Fuzzy-Wuzzy" (1898) 622

The Graphic, Christmas Number, 1887 624

"Gordon's Dream---The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum" (1887) [illustration] 625

The Anglo-Boer War 627

Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias 629

"Across th

Über Autor(innen)

Barbara Harlow is Louann and Larry Temple Centennial Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.Mia Carter is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.