Colonial Ambitions: 7 Classic Books on Colonial History
Seven Classic Writings on Empire, Settlement, Race, Governance, and Colonial LegaciesBy Gordon Le Sueur, David Christy, Richard Hildreth, Edward Carbery, E. Alexander Powell, American Colonization Society, George Bryce, Della R. Prescott
Length27h 19m
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Colonial Ambitions gathers seven classic texts that illuminate the rhetoric, practice, and contested memory of colonial expansion. Ranging from historical narration and political commentary to travel writing, institutional advocacy, and reflective observation, the volume reveals colonial history as a field shaped by aspiration, commerce, race, religion, settlement, and resistance. Its juxtaposition of firsthand-inflected accounts with interpretive histories makes the collection especially valuable for tracing how empire was imagined, defended, and questioned. The contributors—including Gordon Le Sueur, David Christy, Richard Hildreth, Edward Carbery, E. Alexander Powell, George Bryce, and Della R. Prescott, alongside materials associated with the American Colonization Society—represent varied positions within nineteenth- and early twentieth-century transatlantic writing on colonization. Their works intersect with movements of abolition, missionary enterprise, national expansion, imperial administration, and historical commemoration. Read together, these voices expose both the diversity of colonial projects and the assumptions that sustained them, while inviting critical attention to whose experiences were recorded, authorized, or omitted. This volume is recommended for students, researchers, and general readers seeking a compact yet wide-ranging encounter with colonial discourse. It offers an unusual opportunity to compare styles, arguments, and historical perspectives within one book, fostering a productive dialogue between advocacy, observation, and retrospective interpretation.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length27 hrs 19 mins
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Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1A Day in a Colonial Home
2A Day in a Colonial Home
3A DAY IN A COLONIAL HOME
4HOW TO BUILD A COLONIAL KITCHEN IN SCHOOL, LIBRARY OR MUSEUM
5The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa
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6FOREWORD
7AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT
8CHAPTER I
9CHAPTER II
10CHAPTER III
11CHAPTER IV
12CHAPTER V
13CHAPTER VI
14CHAPTER VII
15CHAPTER VIII
16CHAPTER IX
17CHAPTER X
18CHAPTER XI
19Germany's Vanishing Colonies
20PREFACE
21CHAPTER III EAST AFRICA
22CHAPTER IV TOGOLAND AND KAMERUN
23CHAPTER VI KIAU-CHAU
24African Colonization by the Free Colored People of the United States
25AFRICAN COLONIZATION BY THE FREE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES, AN INDISPENSABLE AUXILIARY TO AFRICAN MISSIONS. A Lecture.
26PREFATORY REMARKS.
27A LECTURE ON AFRICAN MISSIONS. (pt. 1)
28A LECTURE ON AFRICAN MISSIONS. (pt. 2)
29APPENDIX.
30ADDRESS OF THE OHIO COLONIZATION COMMITTEE, TO The Clergymen of Ohio.
31Inducements to the Colored People of the United States to Emigrate to British Guiana
32I. SITUATION, EXTENT, GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES, CLIMATE, SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS OF BRITISH GUIANA.
33Condition of the American Colored Population, and of the Colony at Liberia
34STATEMENT OF FACTS.
35The Romantic Settlement of Lord Selkirk's Colonists. The Pioneers of Manitoba
36Lord Selkirk's Colonists
37CHAPTER III.
38CHAPTER VI.
39CHAPTER IX.
40CHAPTER XII.
41CHAPTER XVII.
42CHAPTER XXII.
43CHAPTER XXV.
44CHAPTER XXIX.
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