Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9780312293352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 343 str.

Antoinette Burton

Opis

Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader is the first source book to track the role the British Empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life. Unlike most other books on this subject, the reader also highlights women's contributions to both domestic and imperial questions, and takes account of colonial men's and women's activities as well. The reader introduces the intersections of "home" and "empire" so that the effects of imperialism on Victorian politics and society can be fully appreciated.

Spis treści

Part I: Shaping the Imperial Body Politic, 1829-1857
Cultures of Service, Anti-Slavery and Reform
Imperial Britons at Mid-Century
Part II: Liberalizing Imperial Democracy: Mid-Century and After
Imagining an Imperial Polity
Women, Politics and Empire
Varieties of National and Imperial Patriotism
Part III: At Home with Imperial Culture: Toward the 20th Century
Empire's Civilizing Missions
Work, Race and Politics: Centers and Peripheries
The Boer War and the New Century

O autorze

ANTOINETTE BURTON is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.