Colonial Relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the Nineteenth-Century Imperial World

ISBN-13: 9781108440011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 310 str.

Adele Perry

Opis

A new perspective on the nineteenth-century imperial world through one family's history across North America, the Caribbean and United Kingdom.

Recenzje

'This is an enormous achievement. Adele Perry's study of the Douglas–Connolly family and especially of one of its members, colonial administrator, James Douglas, is at one level a lively narrative history of a family, deftly introducing historical figures and exploring their personal trajectories and networks of relationships. At the same time, as readers we are drawn into an exploration of many of the issues that make history so exciting today … For those of us investigating similar themes in other places, as I am, part of the charm of this book is that the story told here is both parallel to and yet utterly different from our own. To those looking for readable and locally-grounded colonial histories that also illuminate larger imperial and indeed world history themes, I will in future say read Perry's Colonial Relations.' Ann Curthoys, University of Sydney

Spis treści

1. Empire, family, and archive; 2. Housekeepers and wives; 3. Free people, servants, and states; 4. Changing intimacies, changing empire; 5. Local elites, governance, and authority; 6. Governors, wives, daughters and sons; 7. Colonies, nations and metropoles; 8. Wealth and descendants; Conclusion: empire, colonies, and families; Bibliography; Index.