Edward Beasley

Mid-Victorian Imperialists

British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is an empirical study of just where in Victorian culture the ideology of imperialism left clear traces of itself. The well-written investigations bring to life how certain men thought about the British Empire between the 1830s and 1868.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9781138878150
• ISBN-10: 1138878154
• Artikelnr.: 42092133

Autorenporträt

Edward Beasley is a Lecturer in History at San Diego State University, where he also teaches in the Liberal Studies Program. He is the author of Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868 (Routledge 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

Table Of Contents Acknowledgments iv Abbreviations v Preface by Peter Catterall I Introduction II Arthur Mills
Almanacs
and Despotism. III The Man who ran the Empire. IV Frederic Rogers and the 'Transcendental Expectation' V Letters from Australia
Pt 1: The Citizens VI Letters from Australia
Pt 2: The Governor and the End of the World VII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires
Part 1: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton VIII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires
Part 2. IX Generalizing about Humanity: Lord Carnarvon. X Rawlinson
Northcote
and the Imperialism of Information Management. XI Conclusion Bibliography