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Colonial Lives Across the British Empire Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Lambert, David Lester, Alan
Innbundet / 2006 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521847704
Publisert
2006-11-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
770 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
396

Redaktør
Lambert, David
Lester, Alan

Om bidragsyterne

David Lambert is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (2005). Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous books include South Africa Past, Present and Future (2000) and Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth Century South Africa and Britain (2001).

Colonial Lives Across the British Empire Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Lambert, David Lester, Alan
Innbundet / 2006 / Engelsk
Lambert, David Lester, Alan
Innbundet / 2006 / Engelsk
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This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'. These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary. Leading scholars of colonialism guide the reader through the ways that these individuals made the British Empire, and the ways that the empire made them. Their life histories constituted meaningful connections across the empire that facilitated the continual reformulation of imperial discourses, practices and cultures. Together, their stories help us to re-imagine the geographies of the British Empire and to destabilize the categories of metropole and colony.
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Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester; 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown; 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston; 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert; 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoë Laidlaw; 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale; 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht; 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown; 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert; 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish; 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas; 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop; Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall; Bibliography.
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Review of the hardback: '[Colonial Lives] brings together recent work on biography and subjectivity on the one hand and the literature on space and place that has done much to shape contemporary apprehensions of empire, and it does so with fresh insight and a lot of intellectual energy as well.' Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
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A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

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This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'. These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary. Leading scholars of colonialism guide the reader through the ways that these individuals made the British Empire, and the ways that the empire made them. Their life histories constituted meaningful connections across the empire that facilitated the continual reformulation of imperial discourses, practices and cultures. Together, their stories help us to re-imagine the geographies of the British Empire and to destabilize the categories of metropole and colony.
Les mer
Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester; 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown; 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston; 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert; 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoë Laidlaw; 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale; 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht; 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown; 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert; 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish; 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas; 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop; Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall; Bibliography.
Les mer
Review of the hardback: '[Colonial Lives] brings together recent work on biography and subjectivity on the one hand and the literature on space and place that has done much to shape contemporary apprehensions of empire, and it does so with fresh insight and a lot of intellectual energy as well.' Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History
Les mer
A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780521847704
Publisert
2006-11-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Cambridge University Press
Vekt
770 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
159 mm
Dybde
29 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
396

Redaktør
Lambert, David
Lester, Alan

Om bidragsyterne

David Lambert is Lecturer in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of White Creole Culture, Politics and Identity during the Age of Abolition (2005). Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. His previous books include South Africa Past, Present and Future (2000) and Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth Century South Africa and Britain (2001).

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