Midterm Exam on MONDAY, 23 February

The New Imperialism

Background Reading
Merriman, History of Modern Europe, vol. 2, on Crimean War (pp. 751-755), "scramble for Africa" (899-913), and New Imperialism (921-942).

Discussion: 25-26 Feb. 2009, Europeans and Others
Students whose last names begin with I-Q must submit written answers to Reading Questions this week.
Arthur Gobineau, The Inequality of Human Races (1853), selections.

Jules Ferry, Speech on the Madagascar Question, March 1884, selections.

Mrs. Marcus Fuller, The Wrongs of Indian Womanhood (1900), selections. You may also want to see: Raja Rommohan Roy, "On the Burning of Widows" (1820), extracts on-line; Indian Customs and Manners (1840), extract on-line.

Further Reading
Alice Conklin, A Mission to Civilize: The Republican Idea of Empire in France and West Africa, 1895-1930 (2000).

Frederick Cooper and Ann Laura Stoler, eds., Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (1997).

Graham Dawson, Soldier Heroes: British Adventure, Empire, and the Imagining of Masculinities (1994).

Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (1998).

Martin Klein, Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa (1998).

Clare Midgley, ed., Gender and Imperialism (1998).

Mrinalini Sinha, Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire (2006).