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Author Lester, Alan, author.

Title Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / Alan Lester, University of Sussex and La Trobe University, Kate Boehme, University of Leicester, Peter Mitchell.

Publication Info. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  909.0971241 L567r 2021    ---  Available
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Description xii, 403 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain -- Politics and government.
Imperial federation.
British colonies. (OCoLC)fst01910374
Imperial federation. (OCoLC)fst00968122
Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
Great Britain. (OCoLC)fst01204623
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author Boehme, Kate, author.
Mitchell, Peter, 1982- author.
ISBN 9781108426206 hardcover
1108426204 hardcover
9781108584227 electronic book
9781108444897 paperback
110844489X

 
    
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