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

Name: Colonial Lives Across the British Empire Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century
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ISBN: 9780521612371

ISBN-10: 0521612373

ISBN-13: 9780521612371

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Lambert, Alan Lester

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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…

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List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/10/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 396
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English



Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects




Clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire




A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia




Missionary Politics and the Captive Audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony




Irish liberalism tempered by empire




George Grey in Ireland: Narrative and network




'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): Colonial identity and the geographical imagination




Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad




Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: Humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network




Sunshine and Sorrows: Canada, Ireland




Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India'




Making Scotland in South Africa



Epilogue: Imperial careering at home



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