| Description |
xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction : imperial spaces, imperial subjects / David Lambery and Alan Lester -- Gregor MacGregor : clansman, conquistador and coloniser on the fringes of the British empire / Matthew Brown -- A blister on the imperial antipodes : Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia / Anna Johnson -- Missionary politics and the captive audience : William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape colony / Alan Lester and David Lambert -- Richard Bourke : Irish liberalism tempered by empire / Zoë Laidlaw -- Gregory Grey in Ireland : narrative and network / Leigh Dale -- Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands (1857) : colonial identity and the geographical imagination / Anita Rupprecht -- Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour : Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji (1866-1880) / Laurence Brown -- Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government : humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network / Philip Howell and David Lambert -- Sunshine and sorrows : Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen / Val McLeish -- Mary Curzon : 'American queen of India' / Nicola J. Thomas -- 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 |
| Summary |
"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 ... These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-365) and index |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- History -- 19th century.
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Imperialism -- History -- 20th century.
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Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100239
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 20th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100289
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United Kingdom -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056632 -- Biography.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
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Commonwealth countries -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114747
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| Genre/Form |
Biography.
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History.
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Lambert, David, 1976-
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Lester, Alan.
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| LC no. |
2007295808 |
| ISBN |
9780521847704 (hbk.) |
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0521847702 (hbk.) |
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9780521612371 (paperback) |
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0521612373 (paperback) |
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