The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
The volume builds upon developments in recent years in reconceptualising the British Empire as a system structured around complex, multi-layered networks, which transcended conventionally defined boundaries between metropolitan and colonial space.
Barry Crosbie is Assistant Professor of History at The Hong Kong Institute of Education Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: The cultural construction of the British world Barry Crosbie and Mark Hampton 1. Naked natives and noble savages: the cultural work of nakedness in imperial Britain Philippa Levine 2. British radicals in Asia and the persistence of empire c.1820 1950 C.A. Bayly 3. Sugar wars: the culture of free trade versus the culture of antislavery in Britain and the British Caribbean, 1840 50 Philip Harling 4. At home in the Ottoman Empire: humanitarianism and the Victorian diplomat Michelle Tusan 5. A semi exclusionary empire?: the use of British colonial ideals in Trinidad and Bengal Martin J. Wiener 6. The curious case of the chabutra wallahs: Britons and Irish imperial culture in nineteenth century India Barry Crosbie 7. Sorting out China: British accounts from pre opium war Canton John M. Carroll 8. John Stuart Mill's other island: the discourse of unbridled capitalism in post war Hong Kong Mark Hampton 9. Scrutiny abroad: literary criticism and the colonial public Christopher Hilliard 10. Mr. Hickey's pictures: Britons and their collectibles in late eighteenth century India Tillman Nechtman 11. Material culture and Sierra Leone's civilising mission in the nineteenth century Bronwen Everill Index
Introduction: The cultural construction of the British world Barry Crosbie and Mark Hampton 1. Naked natives and noble savages: the cultural work of nakedness in imperial Britain Philippa Levine 2. British radicals in Asia and the persistence of empire c.1820 1950 C.A. Bayly 3. Sugar wars: the culture of free trade versus the culture of antislavery in Britain and the British Caribbean, 1840 50 Philip Harling 4. At home in the Ottoman Empire: humanitarianism and the Victorian diplomat Michelle Tusan 5. A semi exclusionary empire?: the use of British colonial ideals in Trinidad and Bengal Martin J. Wiener 6. The curious case of the chabutra wallahs: Britons and Irish imperial culture in nineteenth century India Barry Crosbie 7. Sorting out China: British accounts from pre opium war Canton John M. Carroll 8. John Stuart Mill's other island: the discourse of unbridled capitalism in post war Hong Kong Mark Hampton 9. Scrutiny abroad: literary criticism and the colonial public Christopher Hilliard 10. Mr. Hickey's pictures: Britons and their collectibles in late eighteenth century India Tillman Nechtman 11. Material culture and Sierra Leone's civilising mission in the nineteenth century Bronwen Everill Index
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