Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Acknowledgments xv
4. General Introduction: Readings in Imperialism and Orientalism xvii
5. Volume Introduction: The Scramble for Africa 1
6. I . THE BERLIN CONFERENCE 1885: MAKING/MAPPING HISTORY
7. Introduction: The Scramble for Africa: From the Conference at Berlin to the Incident at Fashoda 12
8. Chronology of Events 16
9. Africa in 1886: The Scramble Half Complete [map] 17
10. Africa after the Scramble, 1912 [map] 18
11. Africa 1898, with Charter Companies [map] 19
12. Excerpts from Heart of Darkness 20
13. Africa 21
14. General Act of the Conference of Berlin 28
15. ‘‘The Black Baby’’ (1894) [illustration] 29
16. International Rivalry and the Berlin Conference 47
17. ‘‘The ‘Irrepressible’ Tourist’’ (1885) [illustration] 59
18. Excerpt from ‘‘The Modern Traveller’’ 60
19. The Fashoda Incident 65
20. Geography and Statecraft 76
21. ‘‘Marchez! Marchand!’’ (1898) [illustration] 77
22. Excerpt from Travels in Africa during the Years 1882–1886 79
23. ‘‘Africa Shared Out’’ (1899) [editorial with cartoon] 81
24. II. THE BODY POLITIC : RATIONALIZING RACE
25. Introduction: The Body Politic: Rationalizing Race 84
26. SLAVES
27. The African Slave Trade 93
28. William Pitt the Younger Indicts the Slave Trade and Forsees a Liberated Africa 100
29. The Nigger Question 108
30. The Noble Savage 134
31. SPECIES
32. Moral and Intellectual Characteristics of the Three Great Varieties 143
33. Struggle for Existence 153
34. On the Formation of the Races of Man 160
35. Excerpt from ‘‘Darwin’’ 167
36. Comparative Physiognomy 169
37. Excerpts from The Future of Science 178
38. SELF-GOVERNANCE
39. Nation-Making 189
40. The Primitive Man—Intellectual 195
41. The Principles of the Relations of Our Civilization to the Tropics 208
42. Excerpts from Kafir Socialism 222
43. How the Leopard Got His Spots 232
44. III. THE POLITICAL CORPS
45. THE MISSION
46. Introduction: The Mission: Christianity, Civilization, and Commerce 243
47. Excerpts from Salvation Army Songs 247
48. Dr. Livingstone’s Cambridge Lectures 253
49. Excerpts from How I Found Livingstone 278
50. Livingstone’s Journeys, 1841–1856 [map] 279
51. Preparing the Empire: Livingstone and Stanley in Central Africa 300
52. In Memory of Dr. Livingstone 304
53. Dr. Livingstone 306
54. Influence of Christianity upon Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races 319
55. The Bishop and the Philosopher 328
56. Excerpts from The Surplus 350
57. Excerpts from The Salvation Army British Empire Exhibition Handbook 358
58. The Administration: Lugard and the royal niger company
59. Introduction: Inheritors of Empire, Agents of Change: Lord Lugard and Mary Kingsley 366
60. Royal Charter Granted to the National African Company, Later Called the Royal Niger Company 372
61. Selected Correspondence: The Royal Niger Company 380
62. Exerpts from The Diaries of Lord Lugard: Nigeria 388
63. Duties of Political Officers and Miscellaneous Subjects 402
64. Excerpts from The Dual Mandate in British Tropical Africa 417
65. The Clash of Cultures 439
66. A Letter to the Editor of ‘‘The New Africa’’ 457
67. Excerpts from A Tropical Dependency 460
68. The Administration: Cecil J. Rhodes And The British South Africa Company
69. INTRODUCTION Cecil J. Rhodes: Colossus or Caricature? 475
70. Excerpt from Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland 478
71. ‘‘The Rhodes Colossus’’ (1892) [illustration] 480
72. ‘‘My Career Is Only Beginning!’’ (1896) [illustration] 481
73. ‘‘South Africa before and after Cecil Rhodes’’ (1896) [map] 483
74. We Abandon Hope 484
75. My Uncle’s Gift Is Many Times Multiplied 492
76. Excerpts from The Speeches of Cecil Rhodes 1881–1900 496
77. Excerpts from Men, Mines, and Animals in South Africa 529
78. Personal Reminiscences of Mr. Rhodes 531
79. The Last Will and Testament of Cecil John Rhodes 538
80. The Burial 560
81. IV. CRISES OF EMPIRE
82. Gordon at Khartoum
83. Introduction: Gordon at Khartoum: From Cavil to Catastrophe 566
84. Chronology of Events 569
85. Excerpts from The Journals of Major-General C. G. Gordon, C. B. at Kartoum 569
86. ‘‘At Last!’’ (1885) [illustration] 572
87. ‘‘Too Late!’’ (1885) [illustration] 573
88. Letters to Mary Gordon 578
89. The End of General Gordon 580
90. Relief Expedition 583
91. Excerpts from Gordon at Khartoum 591
92. The Desertion of General Gordon 596
93. Excerpt from In Relief of Gordon 600
94. Excerpt from Fire and Sword in the Sudan 602
95. The Siege and Fall of Khartum 603
96. Act the Fifth: The End 616
97. ‘‘Fuzzy-Wuzzy’’ 622
98. The Graphic Christmas Number, 1887 624
99. ‘‘Gordon’s Dream—The Martyr-Hero of Khartoum’’ (1887) [illustration] 625
100. The Anglo-Boer war
101. Introduction: The Boer War: Accusations and Apologias 629
102. Excerpt from An English–South African’s View of the Situation 635
103. ‘‘Across the Dark Continent’’ (1899) [illustration] 636
104. Excerpt from A History of the Transvaal 644
105. Political Position in Cape Colony 647
106. The Absent-Minded Beggar 651
107. Mr Thomas Atkins 653
108. D. F. Advertiser. Kimberley, friday, february 16, 1900 659
109. Excerpt from Report of a Visit to the Camps of Women and Children in the Cape and Orange River Colonies 665
110. Excerpt from What I Remember 671
111. Prisoners of War 679
112. Methods of Barbarism 683
113. Suggestions for a New Departure 685
114. Further Charges against British Troops 696
115. Excerpt from Hague Convention (II) with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land, 29 July 1899 705
116. Treaty of Vereeniging, 31 May 1902 706
117. The Congo
118. Introduction: The Congo: Abominations and Denunciations 711
119. The Congo State 715
120. The Congo Report 715
121. The 1903 Diary 727
122. An Open Letter to Roger Casement 739
123. Native Life under Congo State Rule 741
124. Excerpts from History of the Congo Reform Movement 757
125. An Open Letter to His Serene Majesty Leopold II 770
126. King Leopold’s Soliloquy 781
127. Excerpts from The Crime of the Congo 800
128. ‘‘The Guilt of Delay’’ (1909) [illustration] 815
129. INDEX 817