Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization, 1750-1900

"The streets are generally unpaved, rough, dirty, filled with vegetable and animal refuse, without sewers or gutters, but supplied with foul, stagnant pools instead. The atmosphere is poisoned by the effluvia from these.... Everywhere heaps of debris

"Take up the White Man's burden—\nSend forth the best ye breed—\nGo bind your sons to exile\nTo serve your captives' need;\nTo wait in heavy harness,\nOn fluttered folk and wild—\nYour new-caught, sullen peoples,\nHalf-devil and half-child." — Rudyar

"Any power which henceforth takes possession of a tract of land on the coasts of the African continent outside of its present possessions... shall accompany the act with notification thereof, addressed to the other Signatory Powers of the present Act

"We find that your country is sixty or seventy thousand li from China. Yet there are barbarian ships that strive to come here for trade for the purpose of making a great profit. The wealth of China is used to profit the barbarians.... By what right d

"It is well known that the English have been the ruin of Hindustan. They have ruined the country and the people. They have trampled upon the rights and customs of the natives. They have taxed the land and the commodities. They have interfered with ou