Au contraire. It is not polemic to call a spade a spade. Nor it is documentary work to propagate a biased and watered down version. In fact, it is propaganda. If you have the appetite for colonial misrule these articles might help paint a backdrop:
1. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1908/10/the-new-...
2. http://www.celdf.org/downloads/NATURE%20and%20EMPIRE%20-%20L...