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Andy Cheng

Mrs. Stanford

LIT 234

24 April 2017

Annotated Bibliography

"Dominion & Civility: English Imperialism & Native America, 1585-1685." Virginia Quarterly

Review, vol. 76, no. 1, Winter 2000, p. 10. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Apr.

2017.

Dominion & Civility: English Imperialism & Native America by the Virginia Quarterly Review

details how British imperialism affected the Native American populations. The articles states that

the British colonial experiences in the Americas can be explained through the conflicts between

the religious, economic, and social groups in the British isles. It then states that these groups

approaches do not take into account the desires of the native populations in their participation in

european civility. The British economic drive on the American frontier was also just as

motivated to make profits and to expand British rule as the metropolitans at home in Britain.

Overall, the article states that the reasons for British imperialism vary and that one of the main

reasons they imperialized was to create new markets and incorporate the natives into european

civility, Dominion & Civility will be used in my essay to connect the potential reasons that

Martians had to invade earth to the reasons the British had to colonize America. The article is

different than other sources because it describes some of the background reasons behind British

imperialism.
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Lam, Tong. "English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China."

Journal of World History, vol. 16, no. 2, June 2005, pp. 237-239. Academic Search

Complete. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century China by Tong Lam takes

a look at the effects that British Imperialism had on Qing Dynasty era China. The article states

that the civilization mission of imperialism is wrought with violence which that not only

disrupts but also reconfigures the colonized sociopolitical order of the imperialized. It then leads

on with the imperialization of China altered the fortune and direction of modern Chinese history.

Some of the changes were European powers displacing the Qing political, legal, and cultural

order and integrating their own westernized systems. Lam then describes the struggles of the

Qing empire, the deterioration of the Qing, and the rebellions against imperialism. Imperialism is

not a completely good thing because of the spread of civilization to foreign places. The purpose

of this source in my paper is to compare the changes that happen when a nation is imperialized to

when England is attacked by martians. It is unique because talks about a specific case of

imperialism that happened in China.

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Mullen, R.D. "The Definitive War of the Worlds." Science Fiction Studies, vol. 20, no. 3, Nov.

1993, pp. 440-443. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

The Definitive War of the Worlds by R.D. Mullen describes The War of the Worlds in a general

sense through the analysis of the book and several reviews of the book. The work goes through

the novel in a reviewer sense and Mullen gives his thoughts on H.G. Wellss novel. It talks about

some themes in the book and literary devices that are apparent in the novel. Then Mullen moves

to to judging several reviews of The War of the Worlds by looking for citing mistakes and

grammar mistakes in their respective reviews. It moves onto say that a definitive text should

reflect the author's final judgment, no matter how much time had passed between the writing of

the book and the making of the final revision. The reviews should include all the revisions of the

novel. This source will be used in my paper to add some outside analysis to my paper. It is

different because the source talks about The War of the Worlds in a general sense and not an

imperialistic one.
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Paudyal, Bed. "Trauma, Sublime, and the Ambivalence of Imperialist Imagination in H. G.

Wells's "The War of the Worlds" Extrapolation (University of Texas at Brownsville), vol.

50, no. 1, Spring 2009, pp. 102-119. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

Trauma, Sublime, and the Ambivalence of Imperialist Imagination in H. G. Wells's "The War of

the Worlds By Bed Paudyal examines the connection between imperialism and The War of the

Worlds. It starts out by stating that the time period in which The War of the Worlds was released

was a time of British imperialism and anxieties about the purpose of imperialism. These

anxieties were formative to the book's composition and they surface themselves in the text with

Wells's critique of the empire. The paper then moves on to there is some justice dealt when

imperialistic England is invaded by a technologically superior Mars. Britain itself, the colonizer,

being colonized is a twist of irony. It then moves onto how Wellss narrative of the book was

split into two trains of thoughts; siding with humanity or siding with the social Darwinist drive to

survive through imperialization. This source will be a key source in my paper as it directly deals

with my topic of The War of the Worlds relating to imperialism. It is different than the other

sources because this is the only source which is actually about my topic.
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SALZMAN, PHILIP. "British Imperialism and the Tribal Question: Desert Administration and

Nomadic Societies in the Middle East, 1919-1936." Nomadic Peoples, vol. 20, no. 2, July

2016, pp. 291-294. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

British Imperialism and the Tribal Question: Desert Administration and Nomadic Societies in

the Middle East by Philip Salzman focuses on how imperialism and invasion affected the

nomadic societies of the Middle East. The articles starts with Ottoman rule over the Bedouin

tribe was relatively peaceful with lax taxes being in placed and Islam conversion taking place.

The Italians then tried to take over parts of Libya and thought that the native tribes would

support not being under Ottoman rule but they failed. The British then inherited the region after

WW1 and developed an semi-effective administration system. They did fail to realize that all the

tribes are not all the same which affected the complexity of colonial governing and caused the

middle east that is present today. Salzmans paper will be used in my essay to support the general

idea of imperialism and the effects that it brings to the colonized. This source is similar to

another source which describes imperialism in China but it also brings a new perspective in the

form of Middle East tribes.

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Seed, David. "The Course of Empire: A Survey of the Imperial Theme in Early Anglophone

Science Fiction." Science Fiction Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, July 2010, pp. 230-252.

Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Apr. 2017.

The Course of Empire: A Survey of the Imperial Theme in Early Anglophone Science Fiction by

David Seed describes the imperialistic theme in English science fiction in the late 1800s. The

themes of empires and invasion are a very common one in science fiction novels that were

published at the peak of British imperialism. They also potentially provide a warning to the

populace and the government about not being able to defend from an invasion from aliens or

other countries. This warning would push for military preparedness in nations. The source then

describes situations where countries on earth colonize the solar system or the inverse happens

where the earth is colonized. This source will be used to describe science fiction around the same

time period as The War of the Worlds and compare the imperialistic aspect between them. Seeds

paper is different than my other sources because it talks about other science fiction novels in that

period.