The Origins of the Modern World

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Suggested Readings

Chapter 5 - The Gap

Primary Sources:

• Testimony before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England. 1831. Testimony Full Text
• Bennett, William. Narrative of a recent journey of six weeks in Ireland. London: C. Gilpin, 1847. Bennett Full Text
• Marx, Karl and Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto. 1848. Marx Full Text
• Herzl, Theodor. “The Jewish State.” 1896. Herzl Full Text
• Kipling, Rudyard. “The White Man’s Burden.” 1899. Kipling Full Text
• Chamberlain, Joseph. “I Believe in a British Empire.” 1903. Chamberlain Full Text
• Pearson, Karl. National Life from the Standpoint of Science. London: Adam and Charles Black, 1905. Pearson Full Text

Secondary Sources:

• Césaire, Aimé. Discourse on Colonialism. New York: MR, 1972.
• Davis, Mike. Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World. London: Verso Books, 2017.
• Headrick, Daniel R. The Tools of Empire: Technology and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.