Ruling the world
by Lester, Alan
"Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they rev…
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- Full title :Ruling the world / Alan Lester, University of Sussex and La Trobe University, Kate Boehme, University of Leicester, Peter Mitchell.
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"Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons"--
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- Publication Date:2021.
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- Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2021.
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- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781108584227, 1108584225
- oclc:on1237403444
- LC Classification:DA18
- Dewey Decimal:909/.0971241081
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Setting the Scene for Emancipation -- Managing Expectations -- Political Freedom -- Settler Liberties -- Free Trade, Famine and Invasion -- Steam and Opium -- Conclusion to Part One: An Empire of Freedom? -- Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis -- "A Struggle of Life and Death" -- A New Imperial Government -- Conclusion to Part Two: An Empire of Civilization? -- Liberal Fathers and Sons -- Imperialism -- Imperial Wars and their Aftermaths -- Conclusion to Part Three: A Liberal Empire?
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