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Author:
Hyam, Ronald.
Title:
Understanding the British Empire / Ronald Hyam.
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press,
Copyright Date:
c2010
Description:
xxi, 552 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Imperialism--History.
Great Britain--Colonies.
Great Britain--History.--Administration--History.
Great Britain--Religion.--Religion.
Great Britain--Social conditions.--Social conditions.
Imperialismus.
Kolonialismus.
Großbritannien.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Dynamics : geopolitics and economics. The primacy of geopolitics : the dynamics of British imperial policy, 1763-1963 ; The partition of Africa : geopolitical and internal perspectives ; The empire in a comparative global context, 1815-1914 ; The myth of "gentlemanly capitalism" -- Ethics and religion. Peter Peckard, "universal benevolence", and the abolition of the slave trade ; The view from below : the African response to missionaries -- Bureaucracy and policy-making. Bureaucracy and trusteeship in the colonial empire ; Africa and the Labour government, 1945-1951 ; John Bennett and the end of empire -- Great men. Winston Churchill's first years in ministerial office, 1905-1911 ; Churchill and the colonial empire ; Smuts in context : Britain and South Africa -- Sexuality. Empire and sexual opportunity ; Penis envy and "penile othering" in the colonies and America ; Concubinage and the Colonial Service : Silberrad and the Crewe Circular, 1909 ; Greek love in British India : Captain Searight's manuscript -- Imperial historians. Imperial and Commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881-1981 : founding fathers and pioneer research students ; The Oxford and Cambridge imperial history professoriate, 1919-1981 : Robinson and Gallagher and their predecessors.
ISBN:
0521132908 (pbk.)
9780521132909 (pbk.)
0521115221 (hbk.)
9780521115223 (hbk.)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)489007460
LCCN:
2010281557
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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