A History of the Modern World, 9/e

R R Palmer, Yale University
Joel Colton, Duke University
Lloyd Kramer, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Europe's World Supremacy, 1871-1914

Internet Exercises

Imperialism as capitalism
Vladimir Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of World Capitalism, 1916

What was Lenin's critique of European imperialism? Is his critique too narrow?

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1916lenin-imperialism.html)

Criticism of imperialism On what basis did Blunt, Hobson and the American Anti-Imperialist League criticize their own nation's imperialism?
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899blunt.html)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1902hobson.html)



Link 3 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1899antiimp.html)

Imperialism as racism Looking at the Kipling and London pieces and the image, to what degree were there racial overtones to the imperialist project?
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/Kipling.html)



Link 2 (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0254/img0068.jpg)



Link 3 (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Writings/Revolution/yellow.html)

Despoiling and protecting Examine the Monroe Doctrine and the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hildago. In reference to Mexico, how do these documents reflect the contention that the U.S. "both despoiled and protected the adjoining part of Latin America" (624)?
Link 1 (http://campus.northpark.edu/history//Classes/Sources/Monroe.html)



Link 2 (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/guadhida.htm)

From the Ottoman empire to modern Turkey

Does the Young Turks? Proclamation for the Ottoman Empire (1908) solidify the empire or replace it by inventing Turkish national identity?

Link 1
(http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1908youngturk.html)

The Europeans and Africa What arguments did Lugard, Ferry and the Pan-German League use to justify their nation's expansion in Africa?
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1893lugard.html)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1884ferry.html)



Link 3 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1890pangerman.html)

English in British India What was Macaulay's argument favoring instruction in Indian schools in the English language? What might Naoroji have thought about this argument?
Link 1 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1833macaulay-india.html)



Link 2 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1871britishrule.html)

End of Russian America During an age of expansion elsewhere the Russians terminated their imperial possessions in North America. Why do you think this happened?
Link 1 (http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/russian/s1a.html)



Link 2 (http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/treatywi.htm)

The Colonized on colonization What do these responses reveal?
Link 1 (http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/history/core/pics/0254/img0057.jpg)



Link 2 (http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/History/teaching/sem22.htm#Lobengula)



Link 3 (http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1842canton.html)

Images and Statistics The image implies a movement of British people to British colonies, a solution to surplus population. Do the statistics on the German colonial empire suggest this happened?
Link 1 (http://www.artehistoria.com/historia/jpg/RER12773.jpg) (British empire c. 1900)



Link 2 (http://www.stabi.hs-bremerhaven.de/gbs2/whkmla/documents/kolonialatlas1913/kolat03.html)

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