Research Catalog

Title

The age of imperialism / edited by Robin W. Winks.

Publication

Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, [1969]

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Details

Additional Authors

Winks, Robin W.

Description

viii, 184 p.; 20 cm.

Series Statement

Sources of civilization in the West

Uniform Title

Sources of civilization in the West.

Subject

• Imperialismo
• Imperial federation
• Imperialism

Genre/Form

History (form)

Note

• A Spectrum book.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Reconnaissance: Marco Polo in the East -- An epic for the conqueror: The Lusiads -- In praise of the settle, Rudyard Kipling -- The East replies to the West: Two letters -- The splendor of decay, Henri Mouhot -- Romance of the jungle, Sir George Maxwell -- The native people, Watkin Tench -- An Asian sees his people through European eyes -- East and West: a Japanese folktale -- Acquistion: Settlement, Edward Gibbon Wakefield -- Capitalism and commerce, V.I. Lenin -- Power and pride, Joseph A. Schumpeter -- Racism, Sir Harry H. Johnston; Sir James Brooke -- Duty, Samuel Smiles -- God, Alexander Duff; Frederick Dealtry Lugard -- Science, Major General Sir Thomas Munro; Benjamin Kidd; Herman merivale; Charles Wentworth Dilke -- Methods: Spheres of influence, treaty of London, 1824 -- Negotiations with native peoples: Treaty of Waitangi, 1840 -- Tribal treaties: The Royal Niger Company -- Displacing troublesome rulers: the Punjab, 1849 -- Trading privileges: Abeokuta, 1852 -- Proclamation, Queen victoria, 1858 -- Parliamentary sovereighty: the Colonial laws validity act, 1865 -- Defense agreements: Afghanistan, 1880 -- Secret agreements: Sykes-Picot agreement, 1916 -- Trusteeship: the mandates, 1919 -- Conquest: the Japanese at singapore, 1941 -- Occupation: white settlers in Kenya, 1949 -- Respect: the Clifford Minute, 1922 -- Evaluation: A man on the spot, Joyce Cary -- A colonial officer looks back, Walter Russell Crocker -- The view of an Asian scholar and diplomat, K.M. Panikkar -- The voice of the damned, Frantz Fanon -- A view from 1878, William Ewart Gladstone -- A view from the 1960s, Kenneth Robinson.

ISBN

• 0130185493
• 9780130185495

LCCN

^^^75079441^

OCLC

• 53677
• SCSB-12143609

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library