 |
1757:
Battle at Calcutta - Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Clive to the Lord
Chancellor (2/23) |
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|
1757:
The Battle of Plassey - Robert Clive to the East India Company
(7/26) |
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|
1760:
The Canton System
of Trade |
|
|
1772:
Speech on India in the House of Commons - Robert Clive |
|
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1773:
India
Regulating Act |
|
|
1776:
"The
Cost of Empire" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth
of Nations |
|
|
1776:
"Of Colonies" - from Adam Smith's The Wealth of
Nations |
|
|
1786:
Initial British Plans for Australia |
|
|
1788:
The 'First Fleet'
in Sydney Harbour |
|
|
1793:
Emperor Ch'-ien
lung's letter to King George III |
|
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1808:
West Africa:
Trade and Expectations |
|
|
1810-1811:
Attempts to Control the Opium Trade |
|
|
1820:
Raja Rammohan Roy
- Burning Widows Alive |
|
|
1829:
On
Ritual Murder in India
- William Bentick |
|
|
1830s:
"On Empire and Education" - Thomas Babington Macaulay |
|
|
1833-35:
Thomas
Babington Macaulay on India |
|
|
1834:
China & Trade with the West: The Napier Affair |
|
|
1839:
Letter of Advice to Queen Victoria from Liu Zexu |
|
|
1840:
Commissioner Lin and the Opium
Merchants: An Edict |
|
|
1840:
Mountstuart
Elphinstone - Indian Customs and Manners |
|
|
1841:
Africa before the Scramble: Britain and the Niger |
|
|
1842:
The People of
Canton - Against the English |
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|
1842:
The Treaty of Nanking |
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|
1844:
Negotiating with African Chiefs |
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|
1845-1846:
War and Peace in India - Proclamation by the Governor
General of India & Treaty between the British Government and the
State of Lahore concluded at Lahore |
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|
1848:
On
Colonies and Colonization - John Stuart Mill |
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|
1850:
Camp Life in
India - Sir Monier Williams |
|
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1851:
Survival of the Fittest Applied to Human Kind -
Herbert Spenser |
|
|
1853:
Pilgrimage to
Mecca - Sir Richard Francis Burton |
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|
1855:
Livingstone
Discovers Victoria Falls |
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|
1857:
"British India," - Charles Creighton Hazewell in the
Atlantic Monthly, (Nov.) |
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1857:
"The
Indian Revolt" - The Atlantic Monthly (Dec.) |
|
|
1857:
"Reconquest of India," The Living Age, vol.
55, issue 699 (10/27) |
|
|
1858:
Letter to Sir
George Grey - Moshweshwe [on the establishment of Basutoland] |
|
|
1858:
The Treaty of
Tientsin(G.B./China) |
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1864:
Russia's imperial expansion into Asia |
|
|
1868-1870:
Travels in Africa
- Paul du Chaillu |
|
|
1870:
The Diamond
Fields of South Africa - Anthony Trollope |
|
|
1870:
One Day in
Morocco - Edmondo de Amicis |
|
|
1871:
"The Benefits of British Rule" - by Dadabhai Naoroji |
|
|
1871:
How
I Found Livingstone
- Sir Henry M. Stanley |
|
|
1871:
Roughing It: The
Gentle, Inoffensive Chinese - Mark Twain |
|
|
1873:
Anthony
Trollope on British Imperialism |
|
|
1875:
Up
the Cataracts of the Nile -
Charles
Dudley Warner |
|
|
1876:
The Story of the
Suez Canal |
|
|
1877:
Cecil J. Rhodes and service under the Empire |
|
|
1877:
"When
Queen Victoria Became Empress of India" - Field Marshal Lord Roberts |
|
|
1878:
The Hill of Bones
(Afghanistan) - Reverend Arthur Male |
|
|
1879:
A
German Viewpoint on Imperialism |
|
|
1879-1884:
Stanley's Congo Treaties |
|
|
1880s:
Example of a British Imperialist Treaty with African Rulers |
|
|
1882:
British
Duties Toward India |
|
|
1883:
British
Missionary Letters: Urging the Annexation of the South Sea Islands |
|
|
1883:
The Demon of the
Orient - Allen S. Williams |
|
|
1883:
Imperial Conquest - The Nation's Savior -
Le Petit Journal |
|
|
1883:
Urging the Annexation of the South Sea Islands - British missionary
letters |
|
|
1884:
"On
French Colonial Expansion" - speech by Jules Ferry before the French
Chamber of Deputies (3/28) |
|
|
1884:
The Siege of Khartoum in the Sudan - British Major-General
Charles
Gordon |
|
|
1885:
The
Berlin Conference (select excerpts) |
|
|
1885:
The Death of
General Gordon at Khartoum - Alfred Egmont Hake |
|
|
1885:
The Indian
National Congress |
|
|
1885:
Life in Persia -
S. G. W. Benjamin |
|
|
1885:
W.C.
Bonnerjee - excerpts from Presidential Address to First Indian
National Congress |
|
|
1888:
The Rhodesian Concession |
|
|
1889:
The Ballad of East and West -
Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
1889:
The Constitution
of the Empire of Japan |
|
|
1889:
Lobengula protests to Queen Victoria |
|
|
1890:
The Great Market
of Tripoli - George E. Thompson |
|
|
1890:
Justice in Arabia
- Colonel L. du Couret |
|
|
1890:
King Leopold II
of Belgium - letter to the minister of the Congo |
|
|
1890:
Program of the
Pan-German League |
|
|
1891:
A
French Viewpoint on Imperialism |
|
|
1891:
On Anglo-Saxon
Predominance - Josiah Strong |
|
|
1892:
"The
Rhodes Colossus" - political cartoon by Linley Sambourne in Punch
12/10) |
|
|
1893:
Joseph Chamberlain and the doctrine of commercial
imperialism |
|
|
1893:
"The
Rise of Our East African Empire" - Captain F. D. Lugard |
|
|
1894:
"British
Dominion in Asia" - Sir Alfred C. Lyall, Indian Civil Service |
|
|
1895:
The
Treaty of Shimonoseki |
|
|
1896-99:
Britain's
Imperial Destiny
- Wilfred Scawen Blunt |
|
|
1897:
A
British Viewpoint on Imperialism |
|
|
1897:
"Recessional" - poem by Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
1898:
The
Battle of Omdurman
- Winston Churchill |
|
|
1898:
The March of the
Flag - Senator Albert Beveridge |
|
|
1899:
"The Black Man's
Burden" - E. D. Morel |
|
|
1899:
American
Anti-Imperialist League Platform |
|
|
1899:
First Open Door
Note |
|
|
1899:
"The
White Man's Burden" - poem by Rudyard Kipling |
|
|
late 19c:
"Queen
Victoria paints South Africa with blood" - political cartoon by
Lustige Blätter |
|
|
1900:
The Boxer
Rebellion - Fei Ch'i-Hao |
|
|
1900:
Kaiser
Wilhelm II and German Interests in China |
|
|
1900:
Letter from Colonel Arthur Tremeer to his Brother George from the
Boer War in South Africa |
|
|
1900:
My Adventures
During the Boxer War - Yao Chen-Yuan |
|
|
1900:
When the Allies
Entered Peking - Pierre Loti |
|
|
1901:
A
Place in the Sun - Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany |
|
|
1901:
The Boxer Protocol |
|
|
1900-1939:
Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms (charts) |
|
|
1901:
A Visit to a
Head-Hunter of Borneo - William Henry Furness III |
|
|
1902:
Civilisation through the bed: the French in West Africa |
|
|
1902:
Heart
of Darkness
- extracts- Joseph Conrad |
|
|
1902:
Imperialism
-
John Hobson |
|
|
1903:
The Black Man's Burden - Edward Morel |
|
|
1903:
Britain and the Congo Free State
- Dispatch of Lord Lansdowne to
the signatories of the Berlin Act (8/8) |
|
|
1903:
Dispatch of Lord Lansdowne to the Signatories of the Berlin Act |
|
|
1904:
The Herero Rebellion - German Imperialism in S. W.
Africa |
|
|
1904:
Report of the British Consul,
Roger Casement, on the Administration of the Congo Free State |
|
|
1905:
The Attack Upon
Port Arthur - Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai |
|
|
1905:
The Battle of
the Yellow Sea - Captain Vladimir Semenoff |
|
|
1905:
The Battle of
Tsushima - Captain Vladimir Semenoff |
|
|
1905:
"The
Black Man's Burden" - poem by John White Chadwick |
|
|
1905:
"Congo
Free State Horrors" - Mark Twain |
|
|
1905:
The Story of the Congo Free State - Henry Wellington Wack
(entire text) |
|
|
1906:
Conditions in the Congo State - testimony from many witnesses to the Congo Reform
Association, Boston, MA |
|
|
1907:
The
Anglo-Russian Entente - on Persia |
|
|
1908:
Why
Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882 - The Earl of Cromer |
|
|
1908-1920:
Reflections on the Indian ‘Mutiny’ of 1857 |
|
|
1909:
Court Life in
China - Isaac Taylor Headland |
|
|
1909:
"Indian Home Rule" - speech by Mohandas K. Gandhi |
|
|
1913:
Imperialism of
Decadence - Francisco Garcia Calderon |
|
|
1916:
Imperialism:
The Highest Stage of Capitalism,
Prefaces, Chapters VI, VII and X - V. I. Lenin |
|
|
1918:
The Sociology of Imperialism
by Joseph A. Schumpeter |
|
|
1920:
An Indian Nationalist Condemns the British Empire -
speech by Sarojini
Naidu |
|
|
early 20c:
Report of the British Consul, Roger Casement, on the Administration of
the Congo
Free State |
|
|
early 20c:
European Colonialism in Statistic Terms |
|
|
1926:
The Conquest of
Civilization - James Henry Breasted |
