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| | vast audience which fed on the work of that poetic apostle of imper- ialism, Rudyard Kipling.The culture of the late nineteenth century was a cauldron in which an evil brew simmered. It boiled into World War I. It seems reasonable to believe that that should have sobered man and made him do something about the evils in a culture which gives rise to such twin devils as nationalism and imperialism, but apparently that was not the case. REFERENCES | | Dilke, op. cit., v, vi. | | | Ibid., II, 382, 310, 404. | | | Ibid., 395. | | | Ibid., 407. | | | Charles Dilke, Problems of Greater Britain ( London & New York, 1890), 695-6. | | | Ibid., 697. | | | Ibid., 629. | | | Walter Bagehot, Physics and Politics ( New York, 1908), 43. | | | See Sontag, op. cit., 100 ff. for a discussion of Bagehot and his influence on English life. Cf. Hobson, op. cit., 136. | | | Benjamin Kidd, Social Evolution ( New York & London, 1894), 34. | | | See ibid., 310-29 for Kidd s own Summary of his ideas. His Control of the Tropics ( New York, 1898) added little, if anything, to his argument. | | | Chamberlain used Kidd writings to support his argument for colonial expansion. See J. Chamberlain, "Recent Developments of Policy in the United States," Scribners, v. 24, p. 678. | | | Edwardian England ( London, 1933), 245. | | | John Seeley, Expansion of England ( London, 1883), 10-89. | | | Berard, op. cit., 44. | | | G. M. Benedict, English Imperialism in the Last Decade of the Nineteenth Century (Unpublished doctoral thesis, Harvard University, 1933), 283-4. | | | V. L. Parrington, Main Currents in America Thought ( New York, 1930), III, 167. Not all of the poetry of the day was in support of imperialism. Oscar Wilde in his "Ave Imperatrix" had cried out against it. Wilde's poetry was not well-received, however, until after the turn of the century. | | | Julius W. Pratt, The Expansionists of 1898 ( Baltimore, 1986). Chapter I contains a summary of the views of Fiske, Strong, Burgess, and others. | | | Hobson, op. cit., 186-74. | | | L. T. Hobhouse, Democracy and Reaction ( New York, 1905). | | | Robertson, op. cit., 51. | | | Austen Chamberlain, Politics from Inside ( London, 1936), 509. | | | Russell, loc. cit., 314. | | | Joseph Schumpeter, "Zur Soziologie der Imperialismus," Archiv fur Social- wissenschaft und Socialpolitik, v. 46, no. 1, 1918- 1919. | | | Ouida, "Joseph Chamberlain, Living Age, 1900, ser. 7, v. 7, p. 405. | | | E. H. S. Escort, "The Evolution of Joseph Chamberlain," British Review, 1914, v. 7, p. 339. | | | Langer, loc. cit., 102. | | | Charles A. Conant, "The Economic Basis of Imperialism,North American Review, 1898, v. 167, p. 238-40. | | | J. A. Hobson, Capitalism and Imperialism in South Africa ( New York, 1900), 29-30. | -132- | | |
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Publication Information: Book Title: Joseph Chamberlain and the Theory of Imperialism. Contributors: William L. Strauss - author. Publisher: American Council on Public Affairs. Place of Publication: Washington, DC. Publication Year: 1942. Page Number: 132.
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