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RRQ: Imperialism

Instructions:

Answer the following questions related the weekly reading as fully as you can. Please keep direct quotes to a minimum in your responses. I’d like to see your responses in your own words, as the practice demonstrates a deeper understanding of the material. When you do use direct quotes or paraphrase the work of the author, provide the relevant page number(s) in the text.

1. Based on previous lectures and your interpretation of the documents, what various motivations or justifications for imperialism can you identify in the writings from Hobson, Rhodes, Kipling, and Orwell? Provide concrete examples from the reading.

2. What critiques of imperialism do you see in these writings? Provide concrete examples from the reading.

Pick one primary document from the set and answer the following questions about that document.

A. For whom do you think this document was written?

B. List three things that author said that you think are important and why they are important, given what you know about the historical context.

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C. Does the document conflict or agree with other things you have read in this chapter? This means looking at the other documents and the text and clearly comparing or contrasting your document with them. MAKE SURE YOU SPECIFICALLY CITE OR REFERENCE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED IN CLASS OR IN ANOTHER DOCUMENT IN THE SET.

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