A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester; 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown; 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston; 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert; 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoë Laidlaw; 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale; 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht; 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown; 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert; 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish; 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas; 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop; Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall; Bibliography.
Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester; 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown; 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston; 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert; 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoë Laidlaw; 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale; 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht; 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown; 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert; 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish; 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas; 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop; Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall; Bibliography.
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