The Culture of Western Imperialism

HIS 102 Western Civilization IIKara Heitz

“Civilizing Mission”

Political cartoon: "What the United States Has Fought For“ (1914)

Pears’ Soap

Left, image caption:

“The birth of civilisation - a message from the sea.Consumption of soap is the measure of wealth, civilisation,wealth, and purity of the people."

French Colonial School in West Africa, c. 1910

Colonial & Missionary Schools

German Christian Missionary School in Southwest Africa, c. 1910

American women teaching Filipino children at an American-run school in the Philippines, c. early 1900s

Christian missions established in Africa sent some students to European universities or to the United States. This photo shows a group of young men and women, enrolled at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, who came from the British colonies of Africa and the West Indies. (c. 1915)

"School Begins. Uncle Sam (to his new class in Civilization): Now, children, you've got to learn these lessons whether you want to or not! But just take a look at the class ahead of you, and remember that, in a little while, you will feel as glad to be here as they are! "

Paris Exposition 1889

Paris Exposition 1889

“Senegalese Village”, Paris Exposition

An ad for a "Peoples Show" (Völkerschau) in Stuttgart, Germany, 1928

Ad for an “ethnographic spectacle” in Paris, 1892

Human Zoos

“Dahomey Village”, Paris World’s Fair, 1931

Europeans visiting a “negro village” at a World’s Fair

Africans shooting archery in 1904 St Louis “Savage Olympics Exhibition”

Native American “human zoo” that toured Europe

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