Theodore Koditschek

Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination (eBook, PDF)

Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511855825
• Artikelnr.: 38206985

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.