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There were some areas of profitable trade in Africa, mainly
on the West coast% in which Manchester, Liverpool and Glaa, ow
merchants were concerned, but many of the claims =ade for
African trade were wildly optimistic. Tropical Africa was
strictly a potential market. By 1900 Africa was never more
than a very minor contributor to British trade.
An important ingredient in Iaperialiat sentiment
was the belief in British racial euperioritys not only over
coloured races but over the Latin races in Europe. North
Americans could be included in the Anglo-Saxon culture, and
Teutonic Germans might grudgingly be allowed a certain meaeuro
of importance. The finer points of racial definition were
judiciously argued, - for instance by J. A. Crumb during the
Boer War - "In the sense that they are Toutono1 the Dutch are
of the name stock an the English; but the characteristics of
the Batayian are not those of the Jute, the Viking and the
Norsemen. The beat blood of the Teutonic race for six. centurioo
went to the making of England. '
(1)
Liberal critics confirmed
the importance of race in the Imperialist ideolo r1 - J. R. Godard
defined Imperialism an "predominance of race".
attitudes were summed up by Chamberlain speaking in 1895,
(2)
The prevailing
(1) J. A. Crumb, The cri na and dentin of im arial Britain.
London 2nd edition
1915, V01000
(2) J. G. Godard, Rcctn1 nunro racy. b*iný ttudia,, in Ir p *inlinm
London 1905, ppa, 4.5.
See a1. co J41. Robertconf Patriotinrn and Ersriro$ London 1899,