Theodore Koditschek

Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing the historical works of pivotal nineteenth-century figures, this book illuminates how the history of Empire was written and rewritten.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 682g
• ISBN-13: 9780521767910
• ISBN-10: 0521767911
• Artikelnr.: 31777093

Autorenporträt

Theodore Koditschek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Imagining Great Britain: Union, Empire and the burden of
history: 1800-30; 2. Imagining a British India: history and the
re-construction of Empire; 3. Imagining a Greater Britain: the Macaulays
and the liberal romance of Empire; 4. Re-imagining a Greater Britain: J. A.
Froude: counter-romance and controversy; 5. Greater Britain and the 'lesser
breeds': liberalism, race and evolutionary history; 6. Indian liberals and
Greater Britain: the search for union through history; Epilogue: from
liberal imperialism to conservative unionism: losing the thread of progress
in history.