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Western Civilization: Ideas, Politics, and Society, Seventh Edition
Marvin Perry, Baruch College, City University of New York, Emeritus
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Chapter 27: Western Imperialism
The White Man's Burden- The supporters of late nineteenth-century imperialism put forward a number of different arguments in favor European domination of the globe. Some stressed political factors. Others focused on economic issues. Still others saw it as the duty of European Christians to bring progress to "backward peoples." Reexamine the photograph of missionaries in Madagascar on page 672 and the drawing of Leopold II of Belgium on page 673. When you're done, write a letter to the editor making an argument in favor of imperialism, written from the point of view of a late nineteenth-century middle-class European. What gave Europeans the right to rule the rest of the world? What sort of future might such a writer see for colonized peoples?
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