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By Barbara Harlow,Mia Carter

A wealthy selection of fundamental fabrics, the multivolume Archives of Empire provides a documentary historical past of nineteenth-century British imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have rigorously chosen a various diversity of texts that tune the debates over imperialism within the ranks of the army, the corridors of political strength, the lobbies of missionary agencies, the halls of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of buying and selling businesses, the editorial places of work of significant newspapers, and far-flung elements of the empire itself. concentrating on a selected area and old interval, each one quantity in Archives of Empire is prepared into sections preceded via short introductions. files together with mercantile corporation charters, parliamentary documents, explorers’ money owed, and political cartoons are complemented via timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. designated assets for academics and scholars, those volumes display the complexities of nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance to the “global markets” of the twenty-first century.

While concentrating on the growth of the British Empire, The Scramble for Africa illuminates the serious nineteenth-century contest between ecu international locations over Africa’s land, humans, and assets. Highlighting the 1885 Berlin convention within which Britain, France, Germany, Portugal, and Italy partitioned Africa between themselves, this assortment follows British conflicts with different international locations over diverse areas in addition to its eventual problem to Leopold of Belgium’s rule of the Congo. The experiences, speeches, treatises, proclamations, letters, and cartoons assembled right here comprise works via Henry M. Stanley, David Livingstone, Joseph Conrad, G. W. F. Hegel, Winston Churchill, Charles Darwin, and Arthur Conan Doyle. a few items spotlight the proliferation of businesses chartered to pursue Africa’s gold, diamonds, and oil—particularly Cecil J. Rhodes’s British South Africa corporation and Frederick Lugard’s Royal Niger corporation. different records describe debacles at the continent—such because the defeat of basic Gordon in Khartoum and the Anglo-Boer War—and the feedback of imperial maneuvers by means of proto-human rights activists together with George Washington Williams, Mark Twain, Olive Schreiner, and E.D. Morel.

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