| Description |
1 online resource (330 pages) |
| Series |
Critical Perspectives on Empire |
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Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Empire, family, and archive; 2 Housekeepers and wives; 3 Free people, servants, and states; 4 Changing intimacies, changing empire; 5 Local elites, governance, and authority; 6 Governors, wives, daughters, and sons; 7 Colonies, nations, and metropoles; 8 Wealth and descendants; 9 Conclusion: empire, colonies, and families; Select bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father. In the North American fur-trade, he married Amelia Connolly, the daughter of a Cree woman and an Irish-Canadian father. Adele Perry traces their family and friends over the course of the 'long' nineteenth-century, using careful archival research to offer an analysis of the imperial world that is at once intimate and critical, wide-ranging and sharply focused. Perry engages feminist scholarship on gender and intimacy, critical analyses about colonial archives, transnational and postcolonial history and the 'new imperial history' to suggest how this period might be rethought through one powerful family located at the British Empire's margins |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
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HISTORY -- North America.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
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British colonies
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Imperialism
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Colonies -- 19th century
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781316384657 |
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1316384659 |
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9781139794701 |
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1139794701 |
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