Civilization: The West and the Rest (53 page)

21. Conquistador: Jerónimo de Aliaga

22. The Washington who wasn’t: Simón Bolívar as seen in present-day Caracas

23. The scars of slavery in the United States

24. The baguette as a legacy of empire: Saint-Louis, Senegal

25. The black sheep who beat the white sheep: Blaise Diagne, the first black member of the French National Assembly

26. Louis Faidherbe, Governor of Senegal, ponders his
mission civilisatrice

27. Tirailleurs Sénégalais proudly show off their samples

28. Médecins Sans Frontières, imperial style: French doctors brave the tropics

29. Three photographs of ‘Bastard’ women from the German racial theorist Eugen Fischer’s study of the Rehoboth Basters

30. ‘I didn’t know what the war was really like’: a Senegalese tirailleur on the Western Front

31. Lüderitz, Namibia

32. The sartorial world we have lost: a young woman on horseback, Urga [Ulan Bator], Mongolia, 1913, taken by Stéphane Passet for Albert Kahn’s ‘archives of the planet’

33. Two princes in Savile Row: Hirohito and Edward