Perspectives
Cecil Rhodes: Confessions of Faith (1877)
Rudyard Kipling: The White Man's Burden (1899)
Karl Pearson: Social Darwinism: Imperialism Justified by Nature (1900)
John Hobson: Imperialism (1902)
Edward Morel: The Black Man's Burden (1903)
George Orwell: Shooting an Elephant

India
Dadabhai Naoroji: The Benefits of British Rule (1871)
Mountstuart Elphinstone: Indian Customs and Manners (1841)

Africa
The Earl of Cromer: Why Britain Acquired Egypt in 1882
Wilfred Scawen Blunt: Britain's Imperial Destiny (1896-99)
Alfed Egmont Hake: The Death of General Gordon at Khartoum (1885)
Jules Ferry: French Colonial Expansion

Asia
The Taiping Rebellion (1851-1864)
Commodore Perry: When We Landed in Japan (1854)
Kume Kunitake: Records of My Visits to America and Europe (1871-73)
Okuma: from Fifty Years of New Japan (1907-08)