Alan Lester (University of Sussex), Kate Boehme (University of Leicester), Peter Mitchell (University of Sussex)

Ruling the World

Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 145mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 592g
• ISBN-13: 9781108444897
• ISBN-10: 110844489X
• Artikelnr.: 59641362

Autorenporträt

Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex and Professor of History at La Trobe University. He is the author of Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain (2001) and the co-author of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. 1838: The Year of Freedom: 1. Setting the scene for emancipation
2. Managing expectations
3. Political freedom
4. Settler liberties
5. Free trade, famine and invasion
6. Steam and opium
Conclusion to Part I: An empire of freedom?
Part II. 1857: The Year of Civilization: 7. Setting the scene: Hubris and crisis
8. 'A struggle of life and death'
9. A new imperial government
Conclusion to Part II: An empire of civilization?
Part III. 1879: The Year of Liberalism: 10. Liberal fathers and sons
11. Imperialism
12. Imperial wars and their aftermaths
Conclusion to Part III: A liberal empire?
Appendix. Cast of characters.