Nonfiction work

By: B. L. Putnam Weale

Date: 1910

Source: Weale, B L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam. The Conflict of Colour: The Threatened Upheaval Throughout the World. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910, 228–232, 234–235.

About the Author: B.L. (Bertram Lenox) Putnam Weale (1877–1930) was a prominent American author who wrote about the emerging non-Western world—especially China and Japan. Throughout his writings, he warned of the dangers that the rise of strong non-white nations would pose for the United States.

Introduction

It became apparent by 1910 that the era of imperialism—with its driving belief in the White Man's Burden—had mostly come to an end. With little remaining Third-World lands to divide up among themselves, the imperial powers seemed content to administer and develop the possessions that they had already acquired, rather than...