Mr. Stanley, I Presume?
Mr. Stanley, I Presume?

Author: Alan Gallop

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2004-04-27

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 0752494945

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Famous for having found the great missionary and explorer Dr David Livingstone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and immortalised as the utterer of perhaps the four most often quoted words of greeting of all time - 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' - Henry Morton Stanley was himself a man who characterised the great wave of exploring fever that gripped the nineteenth century.

Prelude to Imperialism
Prelude to Imperialism

Author: H. Alan C. Cairns

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-03

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 1000857557

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In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their relations with and attitudes to African tribal societies. The author presents a broad survey of tribal life, an analysis of culture contact, and an extended discussion of the underlying assumptions of the British evaluation of Africans and of the conditions in which they lived. The description of African social conditions and the analysis of grass roots imperialism constitute important contributions to the debate on Western imperialism.

Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence
Victorian Travel Writing and Imperial Violence

Author: Laura E. Franey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-10-14

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230510035

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This study explores the cultural and political impact of Victorian travelers' descriptions of physical and verbal violence in Africa. Travel narratives provide a rich entry into the shifting meanings of colonialism, as formal imperialism replaced informal control in the Nineteenth century. Offering a wide-ranging approach to travel literature's significance in Victorian life, this book features analysis of physical and verbal violence in major exploration narratives as well as lesser-known volumes and newspaper accounts of expeditions. It also presents new perspectives on Olive Schreiner and Joseph Conrad by linking violence in their fictional travelogues with the rhetoric of humanitarian trusteeship.