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<tr> <td> Internet Modern History Sourcebook Imperialism <hr /> See <a href="modsbook.asp">Main Page</a> for a guide to all contents of all sections. <a name="index" class="H_body_text" id="index" style="font-weight: bold; color: #990000"></a> Contents <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#Imperialism">Imperialism</a> <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Analyses </li> <li class="H_body_text">Motives and Attitudes</li> <li class="H_body_text">Celebrations and Objections </li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#China and the West">China and the West</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#India Under the British">India Under the British</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#Africa">Africa</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#The Middle East">The Middle East</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#The Japanese Exception">The Japanese Exception</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="#American Imperialism">American Imperialism</a> <ul> <li>Latin America</li> <li>China</li> <li>The Philippines</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <hr /> <a name="Imperialism" id="Imperialism"></a> Imperialism <ul> <li class="H_body_text">Analyses <ul> <li class="H_body_text">John A. Hobson (1858-1940): <a href="1902hobson.asp">Imperialism</a>, 1902, excerpts [At this Site] </li> <li> John A. Hobson (1858-1940): <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/hobson/1902/imperialism/pt1ch4.htm">The Economic Parasites of Imperialism</a> [At Marxists.org] </li> <li> Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/oct/x01.htm">Imperialism and the Split in Socialism</a>, 1916 [At Marxists.Org][Full Text] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): <a href="1916lenin-imperialism.asp">Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism</a>, 1916, [Full text][At this Site]</li> <li> Vladimir Illyich Lenin (1870-1924): <a href="https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1916/imp-hsc/index.htm">Imperialism, The Highest Stage of Capitalism</a>, 1916 [At Marxists.org][Full Text] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Joseph A. Schumpeter:<a href="1918schumpeter1.asp"> The Sociology of Imperialism</a>, 1918  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/pol116/colonies.htm">Extent of European Colonialism in Statistical Terms</a> [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive] </li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Motives and Attitudes <ul> <li class="H_body_text">British Missionary Letters: <a href="1883hebrides.asp">Urging the Annexation of The South Sea Islands</a>, 1883 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Capt. F. D. Lugard: <a href="1893lugard.asp">The Rise of Our East African Empire</a>, 1893 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Sees an eventual decline of the Empire.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Jules Ferry (1832-1893): <a href="1884ferry.asp">On French Colonial Expansion</a>, 1884 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Prince Ukhtomskii: <a href="1891ukhtomskii.asp">Russia's Imperial Destiny</a> 1891 [At this Site]  </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1890pangerman.asp">Program of the Pan-German League</a>, 1890-1898 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">The Earl of Cromer: <a href="1908cromer.asp">Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882</a>, (1908) [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Wilfred Scawen Blunt: <a href="1899blunt.asp">Britain's Imperial Destiny</a>, 1896-1899 [At this Site] William Henry Furness III: <a href="1901borneo.asp">A Visit to a Head-Hunter of Borneo</a>, 1901  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">W. A. P. Martin: <a href="1900ancestors.asp">The Worship of Ancestors</a>, 1900   [At this Site]</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Celebrations and Objections <ul> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="rulebritannia.asp">British Imperialistic Anthems</a> [At this Site][with multimedia]</li> <li class="H_body_text">John Stuart Mill: <a href="1849jsmill-colonies.asp">On Colonies and Colonization</a>, 1848 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): <a href="kipling.asp">The White Man's Burden</a>, 1899 [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936): <a href="kipling-if.asp">If</a> [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">James Henry Breasted (1865-1935): <a href="http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/22/004.html">The Conquest of Civilization (selections)</a>, 1926 [At WHA] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220408141650/http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/22/004.html">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Edward Morel: <a href="1903blackburden.asp">The Black Man's Burden</a>, 1903, excerpts [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071111135924/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/conrad.html">Heart of Darkness</a>, 1902, short extracts [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive] Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/219">Heart of Darkness</a>, 1902, full text [Project Gutenberg] </li> <li>WEB Jim Zwick: <a href="https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/505">The White Man's Burden and Its Critics</a> [At CUNY] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221205205947/https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/505">here</a>] A really excellent guide to responses at the time, with the texts of poems and . </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1899antiimp.asp">The American Anti Imperialist League Platform</a>, 1899 [At this Site] </li> <li> George Orwell (1903-1950): <a href="http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/">Shooting an Elephant</a> [At Online Literature][Full Text] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230323180615/http://www.online-literature.com/orwell/887/">here</a>]</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="China and the West" id="China and the West"></a> China and the West <ul> <li class="H_body_text">See <a href="/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp">East Asian History Sourcebook</a></li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1792macartney.asp">The Reception of the First English Ambassador to China</a>, 1792 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Emperor Qian Long [Ch'ien Lung] (b.1711-1799, r.1736-1796): <a href="1793qianlong.asp">Letter to George III</a>, 1793 [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">The People of Canton: <a href="1842canton.asp">Against the English</a>, 1842  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Commissioner Lin Cixu [Lin Tse-hsu]: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000613204137/http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/core9/phalsall/texts/com-lin.html">Letter to the English Ruler</a> [Was At BC, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Commissioner Lin: <a href="1839lin2.asp">Letter to Queen Victoria</a>, 1839 [At this Site] Another version.</li> <li class="H_body_text">2ND Ellen N. La Motte: <a href="http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/om/ommenu.htm">The Opium Monopoly</a>, 1920 [At Drug Library] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230320090550/https://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/om/ommenu.htm">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="taiping.asp">The Taiping Rebellion</a>, 1851-1864, excerpts [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Emperor Kuang Hsu: <a href="/halsall/eastasia/1898kuantsu.asp">Attempted Reforms</a>, 1898 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Emperor Kuang Hsu: <a href="/halsall/eastasia/1898kuantsu2.asp">Abolition of the Examination System</a>, 1898  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Isaac Taylor Headland,  1859-1942: <a href="/halsall/eastasia/headland-courtlife.asp">Court life in China: the capital, its officials and people</a>, (New York, F.H. Revell, c1909), full text  [At this Site][Full Text] Contemporary discussion of reform efforts in late imperial China, with a significant discussion of the lives of elite women.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Yan Phou Lee: <a href="1880yanlee.asp">When I Went to School in China</a>, 1880   [At this Site] A late Confucian education.</li> <li class="H_body_text">John Hay to Andrew D. White, <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/john-hay-to-andrew-d-white-first-open-door-note-september-6-1899.php">First Open Door note on China</a>, Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1899 [At American Revolution]  [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221225232425/http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/john-hay-to-andrew-d-white-first-open-door-note-september-6-1899.php">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941, Emperor 1888-1918): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120208063850/http://h-net.org/~german/gtext/kaiserreich/china.html">German Interests in China</a>, 1900 [Was At H-Net, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120606132017/http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/images/lt19cmap.gif">Map of Lost Chinese Territory</a> [Was at BC, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concessions_in_China">Concessions in China</a> List and maps. </li> <li class="H_body_text">The Atlantic: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/china/breakup.htm">The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220811062555/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/china/breakup.htm">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Fei Ch'i-hao: <a href="1900Fei-boxers.asp">The Boxer Rebellion</a>, 1900  [At this Site] A long account of anti-Missionary atrocities by a Chinese Christian.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Yao Chen-Yuan: <a href="1900yao-boxers.asp">My Adventures During the Boxer War</a>, 1900 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Pierre Loti: <a href="1900Loti-peking.asp">When the Allies Entered Peking</a>, 1900 [At this Site] In response to the Boxer rebellion.</li> <li class="H_body_text">John W. Foster: <a href="/halsall/eastasia/1906foster.asp">The Chinese Boycott</a>, from The Atlantic Monthly, January 1906  [At this Site] Criticizes America's discrimination against Chinese immigrants in America as racist. This behavior incited a Chinese boycott of American trade.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Paul S. Reinsch: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140325213111/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1909/12/a-parliament-for-china/306394/">A Parliament for China</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, December, 1909 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1912manchu-end.asp">Proclamation of The Abdication of the Manchus</a>, 1912   [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Ching Chun Wang: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140319072827/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1913/01/a-plea-for-the-recognition-of-the-chinese-republic/306399/">A Plea for the Recognition of the Chinese Republic</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, January 1913 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]</li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="India Under the British" id="India Under the British"></a> India under the British <ul> <li class="H_body_text">See <a href="/halsall/india/indiasbook.asp">Indian History Sourcebook</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Robert Clive (1725-1774): <a href="1757plassey.asp">The Battle of Plassey</a>, 1757 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text"> Robert Clive (1725-1774): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050218121740/http://www.oswego.edu/~pan/h209ma/robertclive_william%20pitt.html">Letter to William Pitt on India,</a> 1759 [Was At Oswego, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Robert Clive (1725-1774):: <a href="1772clive-india.asp">Speech in Commons on India</a>,   1772  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1773indiaact.asp">India: Regulating Act</a>, 1773  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Edmund Burke (1729-1797): <a href="1783Burke-india.asp">Speech in Commons on India</a>, 1783  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Raja Rammohan Roy: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20051122084444/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/roy.html">A Second Conference Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive</a>, 1820 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive] See also <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000301012519/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/sati.htm">An Account of Sati from Vikrama's Adventures</a> [Was at CCNY, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir William Bentinck (1774-1839): <a href="1829bentinck.asp">On Ritual Murder in India </a>, 1829, excerpts [At this Site] Bentinck was first Governor-General of India, in 1833. </li> <li class="H_body_text">Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859): <a href="1833macaulay-india.asp">On Empire and Education</a>, 1830s,  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Mountstuart Elphinstone: <a href="/halsall/india/1840elphinstone.asp">Indian Customs and Manners</a>, 1840 [At this Site] Includes graphic account of suttee.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir Monier Monier-Williams: <a href="/halsall/india/1850monier.asp">Camp Life in India</a>, 1850 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Charles Creighton Hazewell: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180919115624/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1857/11/british-india/531183/">British India</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, November 1857 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Charles Creighton Hazewell:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040218134855/http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/1857dec/revolt.htm"> The Indian Revolt</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, December 1857 [Was At The Atlantic, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Elisa Greathed: <a href="1857Greathed.asp">An Account of the Opening of the Indian Mutiny at Meerut</a>, 1857 [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Robert Traill Spence Lowell: <a href="/halsall/india/lowell-lucknow.asp">The Relief of Lucknow</a> [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir Monier Monier-Williams: <a href="/halsall/india/1870-monier-parsees.asp">The Towers of Silence</a>, 1870 [At this Site] The Parsee's in Bombay.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Dadabhai Naoroji: <a href="1871britishrule.asp">The Benefits of British Rule</a>, 1871 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Field Marshal Lord Roberts: <a href="/halsall/india/1877empressvictoria.asp">When Queen Victoria Became Empress of India</a>, 1877 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Rev. Arthur Male: <a href="/halsall/islam/1878afghanistan.asp">The Hill of Bones</a>, Afghanistan 1878 [At this Site]</li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="Africa" id="Africa"></a> Africa <ul> <li class="H_body_text">See <a href="/halsall/africa/africasbook.asp">African History Sourcebook</a> </li> <li class="H_body_text">Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Imperialism">New Imperialism</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">WEB <a href="https://www.bowlerhat.com.au/">South African War Virtual Library</a> [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230330171442/https://www.bowlerhat.com.au/">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Chief Moshweshewe: <a href="1858basuto.asp">Letter to Sir George Grey</a>, 1858 [On the establishment of Basutoland][At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Paul du Chaillu: <a href="1870chaillu-africa.asp">Travels in Africa</a>, 1868-1870 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Anthony Trollope: <a href="1870trollope-southafrica.asp">The Diamond Fields of South Africa</a>, 1870 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir Henry M. Stanley: <a href="1871stanley.asp">How I Found Livingstone</a>, 1871 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Charles Dudley Warner: <a href="1875nile.asp">Up the Cataracts of the Nile</a>, 1875   [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941, Emperor 1888-1918):  <a href="1901Kaiser.asp">A Place in the Sun</a>, 1901 [At this Site] A speech calling for Germany to have an overseas empire. Africa was the target. </li> <li class="H_body_text"> Roger Casement (1864–1916): <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/50573">The Casement Report Correspondence and Report from His Majesty's Consul at Boma Respecting the Administration of the Independent State of the Congo</a> 1904 full text [Project Gutenberg] "The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casement_Report">Casement Report</a> [Wikipedia] detailed abuses in the Congo Free State which was under the private ownership of King Leopold II of Belgium. This report was instrumental in Leopold finally relinquishing his private holdings in Africa. Leopold had held ownership of the Congolese state since 1885, granted to him by the Berlin Conference, in which he exploited its natural resources (mostly rubber) for his own private wealth. " </li> <li class="H_body_text">Gustave Freensen: <a href="1904freesen.asp">In The German South African Army</a>, 1903-1904 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">2ND David Wiley: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070224120915/http://africa.wisc.edu/outreach/units/tribe.html">Using "Tribe" to Misunderstand Africa </a>, [Was At Wisconsin, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text">2ND Stephen Wooten: <a href="http://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/French_16178.html">The French in West Africa</a> [At U Penn] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221025131606/https://www.africa.upenn.edu/K-12/French_16178.html">here</a>]</li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="The Middle East" id="The Middle East"></a>The Middle East <ul> <li class="H_body_text">See <a href="/halsall/islam/islamsbook.asp">Islamic History Sourcebook</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir Richard Francis Burton: <a href="1853Burton.asp">A Pilgrimage to Mecca</a>, 1853 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Edmondo de Amicis: <a href="1870morocco.asp">One Day in Morocco</a>, c. 1870 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="/halsall/islam/1876suezcanal.asp">The Story of the Suez Canal</a>, from All the Year Round, January 8, 1876 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Alfred Egmont Hake: <a href="/halsall/islam/1885khartoum1.asp">The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum</a>, 1885 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">George E. Thompson: <a href="/halsall/islam/1890tripoli.asp">The Great Market of Tripoli</a>, c. 1890 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Charles James Wills: <a href="/halsall/islam/1885persianwedding.asp">A Persian Wedding,</a> 1885 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">S. G. W. Benjamin: <a href="/halsall/islam/1885persialife.asp">Life in Persia</a>, 1885 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Samuel G. Wilson: <a href="/halsall/islam/1895persiagifts.asp">New Year's Calls and Gifts</a>, Persia 1895 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Colonel L. du Couret: <a href="/halsall/islam/1898arabiajustice.asp">Justice in Arabia</a>, c. 1890 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Winston S. Churchill: <a href="1898churchill-omdurman.asp">The Battle of Omdurman</a>, 1898 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Eustache de Lory: <a href="/halsall/islam/1910persiabazaars.asp">The Persian Bazaars</a>, 1910 [At this Site]</li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="The Japanese Exception" id="The Japanese Exception"></a> The Japanese Exception <ul> <li class="H_body_text">See <a href="/halsall/eastasia/eastasiasbook.asp">East Asia History Sourcebook</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">WEB <a href="http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/ps/ps_japan.htm">Primary Sources: JAPAN</a> [At <a href="http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/">Asia for Educators-Columbia University</a>] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230103053439/http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/main_pop/ps/ps_japan.htm">here</a>] A really good collection of primary sources translated specially for teaching purposes.</li> <li class="H_body_text">2ND <a href="http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html">Guide to Japan: History</a> [At Japan guide] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230314232455/https://www.japan-guide.com/e/e641.html">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text">WEB <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19981205161621/http://www.sage.edu/html/RSC/programs/globcomm/japan/meijija.htm">Meiji Japan</a> [Was At Sage, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_colonial_empire">Japanese Colonial Empire</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Sarashina:<a href="http://history.hanover.edu/texts/diaries/diaryall.html"> The Diary of Lady Sarashina</a> (1009-1059) [At Hanover College]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Tokugawa Iemitsu: <a href="http://www.wfu.edu/~watts/w03_Japancl.html">Closed Country Edict</a> 1635 [At WFU] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230325214420/http://users.wfu.edu/watts/w03_Japancl.html">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060206174047/http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/kaibara.html">Kaibara Ekken or Kaibara Token: Greater Learning for Women</a>, 1762 [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text"> Tsuentomo Yamamoto : <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20000301012519/http://www.humanities.ccny.cuny.edu/history/reader/ASAM.htm">The Way of the Samauri</a> [Was At CCNY. now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Honda Toshiaki: <a href="1798honda.asp">A Secret Plan for Government</a>, excerpts, 1798  [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Commodore Matthew Perry: <a href="1854Perry-japan1.asp">When We Landed in Japan</a>, 1854 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Townsend Harris: <a href="harris-japan1.asp">The President's Letter</a> [At this Site] Harris was the first US ambassador to Japan.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Francis Ottiwell Adams: <a href="ottwell-japanschools.asp">The Schools of Japan</a> [At this Site] Description from the mid 19th century</li> <li class="H_body_text">Japan: <a href="http://history.hanover.edu/texts/1889con.html">Constitution</a>, 1889 [At Hanover College]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Sir Edwin Arnold: <a href="1890japandinner.asp">A Japanese Dinner Party</a>, 1890 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Alice M. Bacon: <a href="1890japanladies.asp">How Japanese Ladies Go Shopping</a>, 1890 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Lt. Tadayoshi Sakurai: <a href="1905portarthur.asp">The Attack upon Port Arthur</a>, 1905 [At this Site] The Japanese adopted Western Imperialism very quickly.</li> <li class="H_body_text">Okuma: <a href="1908okuma.asp">Fifty Years of New Japan</a>, 1907-08, excerpts [At this Site] Okuma suggests the Japanse behave like "Anglo-Saxons."</li> <li class="H_body_text">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Pres., 1901-1909): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/19970617060713/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/trjapan.htm">The Threat of Japan</a> 1909 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text"> Natsume Soseki (1867-1916): <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ns/soseki.html">Kokoro</a>, translation by Edwin McClellan. [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230309163618/http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/ns/soseki.html">here</a>]</li> <li class="H_body_text"> Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904): <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/lh/hearn.html">Writings on Japan</a> [At ibiblio] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211201134846/http://www.ibiblio.org/eldritch/lh/hearn.html">here</a>]</li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> <a name="American Imperialism" id="American Imperialism"></a> American Imperialism <ul> <li class="H_body_text">WEB <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150901154950/https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/to1914.htm">Documents Relating to American Foreign Policy--1898-1914</a>, [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism">American Imperialism</a></li> <li class="H_body_text">Josiah Strong: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20000312194630/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/protected/strong.htm">On Anglo-Saxon Predominance</a>, 1891 [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Albert Beveridge (1862-1927): <a href="1898beveridge.asp">The March of the Flag</a>, September 16, 1898 [At this Site] </li> <li>WEB Jim Zwick: <a href="https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/505">The White Man's Burden and Its Critics</a> [At CUNY] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221205205947/https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/505">here</a>] A really excellent guide to responses at the time, with the texts of poems and other literature in response to Kipling's poem. </li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="1899antiimp.asp">The American Anti Imperialist League Platform</a>, 1899 [At this Site] </li> <li class="H_body_text">Latin America <ul> <li><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20040604065517/http:/kuhttp.cc.ukans.edu/cwis/organizations/las/interven.html">Timeline of US Intervention in Latin America</a> [Was At Kansas, now Internet Archive]</li> <li><a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/monroe.asp">Monroe Doctrine</a>, 1823 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230210174612/https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/monroe.asp">here</a>] and <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1801-1825/monroe-doctrine.php">here</a> [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190416134258/http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1801-1825/monroe-doctrine.php">here</a>]</li> <li><a href="1998Cuba-us-recog.asp">US Recognition of Cuban Independence</a>, 1898 [At this Site]</li> <li><a href="http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/spain/sp1898.htm">Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain</a>, 1898 By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines. [At Yale]</li> <li>Rubén Darío (1867-1916): <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20061231032530/http://www.wsu.edu/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/dario.html">To Roosevelt</a> [Was At WSU, now Internet Archive]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1998Cuba-us-recog.asp">US Recognition of Cuban Independence</a>, 1898 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text"><a href="https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/sp1898.asp">Treaty of Peace Between the United States and Spain</a>, 1898 [At Yale] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230314173947/https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/sp1898.asp">here</a>] By which the US acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Phillipines. <a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1901platt.asp">The Platt Amendment</a>, 1901 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">The Roosevelt Corollary </li> <li><a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1903panama.asp">Convention Between the US and Panama</a> (Panama Canal), 1903 [At this Site]</li> <li class="H_body_text">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919, Pres., 1901-1909): Annual Message to Congress 1905</li> <li>Francisco Garcia Calderón: <a href="https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1913calderon.asp">Imperialism of Decadence</a>, 1913 [At this Site]</li> <li>Calvin Coolidge: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20010208111509/http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/cc101.htm">Intervention in Nicaragua</a> [Was At Mt. Holyoke, now Internet Archive]</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">China <ul> <li>John Hay to Andrew D. White, <a href="http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/john-hay-to-andrew-d-white-first-open-door-note-september-6-1899.php">First Open Door note on China</a>, Department of State, Washington, September 6, 1899 [At American Revolution] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221225232425/http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/documents/1876-1900/john-hay-to-andrew-d-white-first-open-door-note-september-6-1899.php">here</a>]</li> <li>The Atlantic: <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/china/breakup.htm">The Break-up of China, and Our Interest in It</a>, The Atlantic Monthly, August, 1899 [At The Atlantic] [Internet Archive version <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220811062555/https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/unbound/flashbks/china/breakup.htm">here</a>]</li> </ul> </li> <li class="H_body_text">The Philippines <ul> <li>Wikipedia: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_Government_of_the_Philippine_Islands">Insular Government of the Philippine Islands</a> 1902-1935</li> <li>Edwin Wildman: <a href="1898alguinaldo.asp">A Visit to Aguinaldo, Leader of the Philippine Rebels</a>, 1898  [At this Site]</li> <li>R. L. Bullard: <a href="1906bullard.asp">Preparing Our Moros for Government</a>, 1906   [At this Site]</li> </ul> </li> </ul> <a href="#index">Back to Index</a> <hr /> NOTES: The Internet Modern Sourcebook is part of the <a href="/halsall">Internet History Sourcebooks Project</a>. The date of inception was 9/22/1997. Links to files at other site are indicated by [At some indication of the site name or location]. Locally available texts are marked by [At this Site]. WEB indicates a link to one of small number of high quality web sites which provide either more texts or an especially valuable overview. <hr /> The Internet History Sourcebooks Project is located at the <a href="https://www.fordham.edu/history/">History Department</a> of  <a href="http://www.fordham.edu">Fordham University</a>, New York. 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