"The West" and the "New Imperialism"
Joseph Conrad
(1857-1924;
Portrait
),
Heart of Darkness
(1902)
Contextualizing the Novel
From European Expansion to "Western" Imperialism
Europe in the Pacific
The Voyages of...
James Cook
(1768-1780)
Louis-Antoine de Bougainville
(1768-9)
British India
and
French Polynesia and Indochina
From Westward Expansion to U.S. Imperialism
The Monroe Doctrine
(1823), Latin America,
the Caribbean
The Spanish-American War
(1898): Cuba and the Phillipines
The Panama Canal
(finished in 1914)
Commodore Perry "Opens" Japan
(1853)
U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge,
"The March of the Flag"
(1898)
The "Scramble for Africa" (
Precolonial Africa
v.
Africa 1870-1914
)
Perspective:
Africa is Huge
Cases
The French in North Africa
Britain in Egypt and South Africa
Cecil Rhodes
and the
Suez Canal
The Belgian Congo
Key Themes
From the Atlantic Economy to Global Capitalism
Industrial Capitalism as Imperialist Motive
Industrial Raw Materials: Coal,
Iron
, Oil
Industrial Modernization as Imperialism
Marx and the Global Division of Labor
Lenin,
"Imperialism, The Final Stage of Capitalism"
(1916)
"Western Civilization" as Motive: The "Civilizing Mission"
Rudyard Kipling,
The White Man's Burden
(1899)
The Viscious Cycle of Nationalism and Imperialism
The West" and the World c. 1900
The United States and the Americas
Europe and its Empires
Britain
and
France
The New Nations of Germany and Italy
The Empires within Europe:
Austria-Hungary
and
Russia
The
Ottoman
and
Chinese
Empires
