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ABSTRACT.
The thesis traces the rise of popular Impori"-, lint
sentiment, which developed via Coneervativo clubs and
fringe Froupc such an the Primrose Longue. Pressure
for expansion reached a peak, in the Sudan campaign of
1884-5 and the mass eulogy of General Gordon, An
uninhibited and aggressive belief in expansion overlapped
with jingoism which reached a height during the Baer
War with violently patriotic displays.
, roupa Humanitarian preaaure r such as the Anti-
Slavery Society and the Iliseionn were ioportant in the
developoent of an Imperialist position. Humanitarians
demanded the annexation of East/Central Africa and
Uganda in order to put an end to the slave trade, to
help the spread of Christianity or to provide benefits
for the native population. The agitation for the
retention of Uganda in 1892, wan largely organised by the
Church Missionary Society*
Commercial 4rgucenttJ for oxp4nEion played only
a minor part in public opinion; though a small group
of chartered company promoters and African onthuciontn
were thinking in terms of now markets and raw materialas
But popular Imperialism wan best defined an