Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell

Ruling the World

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how the British Empire's governing men enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 510
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 721g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426206
• ISBN-10: 1108426204
• Artikelnr.: 59641582

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.