Mid-Victorian Imperialists

British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-87815-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 340 g

Reihe: British Politics and Society

Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69. These men included imperial officials, leading settlers, British politicians and writers, and Beasley looks at the common trends in their beliefs about the British Empire and how their thoughts changed during their lives to show how Mid-Victorian theories of racial, cultural and political classification arose.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beasley, Edward

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table Of Contents Acknowledgments iv Abbreviations v Preface by Peter Catterall I Introduction II Arthur Mills, Almanacs, and Despotism. III The Man who ran the Empire. IV Frederic Rogers and the ‘Transcendental Expectation’ V Letters from Australia, Pt 1: The Citizens VI Letters from Australia, Pt 2: The Governor and the End of the World VII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 1: Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton VIII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 2. IX Generalizing about Humanity: Lord Carnarvon. X Rawlinson, Northcote, and the Imperialism of Information Management. XI Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Edward Beasley is a Lecturer in History at San Diego State University, where he also teaches in the Liberal Studies Program. He is the author of Empire as the Triumph of Theory: Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868 (Routledge 2004).