You will take the position of Pro-Imperialism (Pro- Empire). Complete the readings on Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa in your custom text. View the two slideshows on The Scramble for Africa from the Weekly Assignments folder.
The year is 1895. You are a resident of either Europe, Asia, or Africa. Create a character and craft a statement for position of Pro-Imperialism (Pro- Empire) as directed above. Use what you have learned from your readings. Make sure you include as many historical details as possible. Your post must be a MINIMUM of 15 sentences. This must be in YOUR OWN WORDS!!!!! Please do not copy anything from anywhere or anyone and do not share this assignment to anywhere and anyone!!!!!!!
Please use all the reading down below and some I will upload for you!!!! Please do not need to do any research!!! Only need to use the reading I provide to do this assignment!!!!
1. Mass Politics and Imperial Domination:Democracy and the New Imperialism, 1870-1914.pdf (text)
2. https://www.thoughtco.com/what-caused-the-scramble-for-africa-43730 (Links on Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa)
3. The Berlin Conference, 1885(1)(1) (Links on Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa)
4. Born in British India in 1865, Rudyard Kipling was educated in England before returning to India in 1882, where his father was a museum director and authority on Indian arts and crafts. Thus Kipling was thoroughly immersed in Indian culture: by 1890 he had published in English about 80 stories and ballads previously unknown outside India. As a result of financial misfortune, from 1892-96 he and his wife, the daughter of an American publisher, lived in Vermont, where he wrote the two Jungle Books. After returning to England, he published “The White Man’s Burden” in 1899, an appeal to the United States to assume the task of developing the Philippines, recently won in the Spanish-American War. As a writer, Kipling perhaps lived too long: by the time of his death in 1936, he had come to be reviled as the poet of British imperialism, though being regarded as a beloved children’s book author. Today he might yet gain appreciation as a transmitter of Indian culture to the West.
What is it today’s reader finds so repugnant about Kipling’s poem? If you were a citizen of a colonized territory, how would you respond to Kipling? (Links on Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa)
5. https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/kipling.asp (Links on Imperialism and the Scramble for Africa)
6. The Scramble for Africa (3)(1) (This slideshow contains some of my own notes on the Scramble for Africa.)
