Author: Jordan, David Starr
Title: Imperial Democracy: A Study of the Relation of Government by the People, Equality Before the Law, and Other Tenets of Democracy, to the Demands of a Vigorous Foreign Policy and Other Demands of Imperial Dominion
Description: New York, D. Appleton and Co. 1899. First edition. Cloth. ix, 293 pp. Sm. 8vo. Eight addresses especially concerning the war with Spain by David Starr Jordan (1851-1931) noted scientist, former president of Indiana Univ. then first present of Stanford University. He was best known, however, as a peace activist and was a vice president of the Anti-Imperialist League (1899), an honorary vice president of the National Association of Anti-Imperialist Clubs (1900), a member of the Philippine Independence Committee (1904), a vice president of the Filipino Progress Association (1905-1907), and a vice president of the reorganized national Anti-Imperialist League (1910-1921). An uncommon title of a once again timely book. Wear to spine ends else a very good copy.

Keywords: American History, , American History, Political Science, Government, American History, Spanish American War, Philippines, Imperialism, Peace Activists, Imperialism, Colonialism, Stanford University, 19th c.,