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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