This book challenges traditional notions of a radical revolution in government, identifying a more profound and general transition from reliance on gossip and personal information to new statistical forms of knowledge. Covers London, New South Wales and the Cape Colony, encompas…
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This is the first book wholly devoted to assessing the array of links between Scotland and the Caribbean in the later eighteenth century. It uses a wide range of archival sources to paint a detailed picture of the lives of thousands of Scots who sought fortunes and opportunities…
A unique longitudinal study of women in colonial India, this book examines their life experiences and how their position changed, both personally and professionally, over more than a century of British rule.
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This volume of essays investigates, across a wide range of texts and with an emphasis on the notion of conflict, the various forms, objects and modes of circulation that sustained the ""European civilizing mission."" At the heart of this volume are two controversial and conflict…
'Neville Alexander and Henri Alleg would be pleased and proud to read this superbly researched, carefully documented, absolutely fair-minded and accurate account. It is well structured, with a useful list of abbreviations, tables and maps. If there is an archive Professor Drew h…
"The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated debates about the causes, character, and consequences of empire. In this volume Dane Kennedy offers a w…