Note 30 — Chapter III · GERMANS BECOME INTERESTED IN THE NEAR EAST

In this connection see Leonard Woolf, Economic Imperialism (London and New York, 1920), Chapter I; Ramsay Muir, The Expansion of Europe (New York, 1917), Chapter I; J. E. Spurr (editor), Political and Commercial Geology (New York, 1920), Chapter XXXII, entitled “Who Owns the Earth?”; Aspi-Fleurimont, “La Question du coton,” in Questions diplomatiques et coloniales, Volume 15 (1903), pp. 429–432; J. A. B. Scherer, Cotton as a World Power (New York, 1922). In addition, for the wider aspects of imperialism, consult H. N. Brailsford, The War of Steel and Gold (New edition, London, 1915), Chapter II; F. C. Howe, Why War? (New York, 1916), passim; Walter Lippman, The Stakes of Diplomacy (New York, 1915); J. A. Hobson, Imperialism: A Study (London, 1902).