Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination - Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

Informationen zum Autor Theodore Koditschek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia. Klappentext Tracing the historical works of pivotal nineteenth-century figures, this book illuminates how the history of Empire was written and rewritten. Zusammenfassung This book illuminates the role of the historical imagination in the formation of liberal imperialism. Tracing the imperial lives and historical works of pivotal figures! it illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice and vice versa! as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and rewritten. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Imagining Great Britain: Union, Empire and the burden of history: 1800-30; 2. Imagining a British India: history and the re-construction of Empire; 3. Imagining a Greater Britain: the Macaulays and the liberal romance of Empire; 4. Re-imagining a Greater Britain: J. A. Froude: counter-romance and controversy; 5. Greater Britain and the 'lesser breeds': liberalism, race and evolutionary history; 6. Indian liberals and Greater Britain: the search for union through history; Epilogue: from liberal imperialism to conservative unionism: losing the thread of progress in history.

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• Authors: Theodore Koditschek, Theodore (University of Missouri Koditschek, Koditschek Theodore
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521767910
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76791-0
• No. of pages: 366
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, c 1500 onwards to present day, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Historiography, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism