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Civilization & Barbarism: Cartoon Commentary & “The White Man's Burden” (1898–1902)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2025

Ellen Sebring
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Rudyard Kipling's famous poem “The White Man's Burden” was published in 1899, during a high tide of British and American rhetoric about bringing the blessings of “civilization and progress” to barbaric non-Western, non-Christian, non-white peoples. In Kipling's often-quoted phrase, this noble mission required willingness to engage in “savage wars of peace.”

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 13 , Issue 27 , July 2015 , e2
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