Archives of Empire: Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa

Published by Duke University Press 2004

Archives of Empire

Volume 2. The Scramble for Africa

Edited by: Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter

Volume 2 in the series Archives of empire

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822385035

Overview
Contents

About this book

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

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

“Archives of Empire offers a valuable and original intervention in contemporary studies of imperialism, providing a rich array of source material pertaining to the imperial project and the wide-ranging grounds for its critique.”—Anne McClintock, author of Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest

“Archives of Empire is a substantial and valuable project containing a generous sampling of key primary texts for understanding both the crucial events in and the debates around British imperialism in the nineteenth century.”—David Lloyd, coeditor of The Politics of Culture in the Shadow of Capital

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism Publicly Available Download PDF	xvii
Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
I . THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885: MAKING/MAPPING HISTORY
Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	12
Chronology of Events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	16
Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
Excerpts from Heart of Darkness Joseph Conrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
Africa G. W. F. Hegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
General Act of the Conference of Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	28
‘‘The Black Baby’’ (1894) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference Arthur Berriedale Keith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
‘‘The ‘Irrepressible’ Tourist’’ (1885) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
Excerpt from ‘‘The Modern Traveller’’ Hilaire Belloc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	60
The Fashoda Incident Winston Churchill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
Geography and Statecraft Lord Alfred Milner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
‘‘Marchez! Marchand!’’ (1898) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886 Wilhelm Junker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
‘‘Africa Shared Out’’ (1899) [editorial with cartoon] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
II. THE BODY POLITIC : RATIONALIZING RACE
Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
SLAVES
The African Slave Trade William Wilberforce Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave Trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa William Pitt the Younger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
The Nigger Question Thomas Carlyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
The Noble Savage Charles Dickens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
SPECIES
Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties Joseph Arthur Gobineau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Struggle for Existence Charles Darwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
On the Formation of the Races of Man Charles Darwin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
Excerpt from ‘‘Darwin’’ Digain Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Comparative Physiognomy James W. Redfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Excerpts from The Future of Science Ernest Renan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
SELF-GOVERNANCE
Nation-Making Walter Bagehot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
The Primitive Man—Intellectual Herbert Spencer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics Benjamin Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
Excerpts from Kafir Socialism Dudley Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	222
How the Leopard Got His Spots Rudyard Kipling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
III. THE POLITICAL CORPS
THE MISSION
Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Excerpts from Salvation Army Songs William Booth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
Dr. Livingstone’s Cambridge Lectures David Livingstone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone Henry M. Stanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	278
Livingstone’s Journeys, 1841–1856 [map] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa M. B. Synge Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
In Memory of Dr. Livingstone Elizabeth Rundle Charles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
Dr. Livingstone Bartle Frere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	306
Influence of Christianity upon Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races Joseph Arthur Gobineau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
The Bishop and the Philosopher Matthew Arnold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	328
Excerpts from The Surplus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	350
Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	358
The Administration: Lugard and the royal niger company
Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley Mia Carter and Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	366
Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	372
Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company George Taubman Goldie and Frederick Lugard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	380
Exerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria Frederick Lugard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	388
Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous Subjects Frederick Lugard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa Frederick Lugard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	417
The Clash of Cultures Mary Kingsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	439
A Letter to the Editor of ‘‘The New Africa’’ Mary Kingsley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	457
Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency Flora L. Shaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	460
The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes And The British South Africa Company
INTRODUCTION Cecil J. Rhodes: Colossus or Caricature? Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland Olive Schreiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	478
‘‘The Rhodes Colossus’’ (1892) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	480
‘‘My Career Is Only Beginning!’’ (1896) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	481
‘‘South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes’’ (1896) [map] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	483
We Abandon Hope H. Rider Haggard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	484
My Uncle’s Gift Is Many Times Multiplied John Buchan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	492
Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881–1900 Cecil John Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa Randolph S. Churchill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	529
Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes L. S. Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	531
The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	538
The Burial Rudyard Kipling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	560
IV. CRISES OF EMPIRE
Gordon at Khartoum
Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	566
Chronology of Events Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C. B. at Kartoum Charles G. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	569
‘‘At Last!’’ (1885) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	572
‘‘Too Late!’’ (1885) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	573
Letters to Mary Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	578
The End of General Gordon Lytton Strachey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	580
Relief Expedition Evelyn Baring Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	583
Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum Wilfred S. Blunt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	591
The Desertion of General Gordon Randolph H. S. Churchill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	596
Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	600
Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan Rudolf C. Slatin Pasha Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	602
The Siege and Fall of Khartum Major F. R. Wingate Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	603
Act the Fifth: The End John Buchan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	616
‘‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’’ Rudyard Kipling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	622
The Graphic Christmas Number, 1887 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	624
‘‘Gordon’s Dream—The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum’’ (1887) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	625
The Anglo-Boer war
Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	629
Excerpt from An English–South African’s View of the Situation Olive Schreiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	635
‘‘Across the Dark Continent’’ (1899) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	636
Excerpt from A History of the Transvaal H. Rider Haggard Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	644
Political Position in Cape Colony J. A. Hobson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	647
The Absent-Minded Beggar Rudyard Kipling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	651
Mr Thomas Atkins E. J. Hardy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	653
D. F. Advertiser. Kimberley, friday, february 16, 1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	659
Excerpt from Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies Emily Hobhouse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	665
Excerpt from What I Remember Millicent Garrett Fawcett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	671
Prisoners of War Winston Churchill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	679
Methods of Barbarism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	683
Suggestions for a New Departure W. T. Stead Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	685
Further Charges against British Troops Arthur Conan Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	696
Excerpt from Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	705
Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	706
The Congo
Introduction: The Congo: Abominations and Denunciations Barbara Harlow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	711
The Congo State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	715
The Congo Report Roger Casement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	715
The 1903 Diary Roger Casement Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	727
An Open Letter to Roger Casement Joseph Conrad Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	739
Native Life under Congo State Rule E. D. Morel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	741
Excerpts from History of the Congo Reform Movement E. D. Morel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	757
An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II George Washington Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	770
King Leopold’s Soliloquy Mark Twain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	781
Excerpts from The Crime of the Congo Arthur Conan Doyle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	800
‘‘The Guilt of Delay’’ (1909) [illustration] Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	815
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	817

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 844
Illustrations
- Other: 34 illus. (10 lineart, 17 b&w photos, 6 maps, 1 table)

eBook

Published: December 31, 2003
ISBN: 9780822385035