The British abroad since the eighteenth century. Volume 2, Experiencing imperialism / edited by Martin Farr, Xavier Guégan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Farr, Martin, editor.

Guégan, Xavier, 1978- editor.

Palgrave (Firm)

Series:

Britain and the world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Travel--Foreign countries--History--Congresses.

British.

Travelers' writings, British.

Imperialism.

History.

Colonies.

British--Travel.

Foreign countries.

Great Britain--Colonies--Description and travel--Congresses.

Great Britain.

Imperialism--History--Congresses.

Travelers' writings, British--History and criticism--Congresses.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 263 pages.)

Other Title:

Experiencing imperialism

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century is a two-volume collection of new essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of travel, tourism, and imperialism. The British Abroad considers the British travelling beyond their Isles over the last 300 years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration - and exploitation - of other lands and peoples, and also through their encounters with other societies and civilisations. Experiencing Imperialism focuses on colonised lands and peoples: from the British Empire and those of other Western powers; from territories ruled by the West to those that gained independence. Together the contributions offer fresh and often challenging perspectives on the colonial and postcolonial ages, increasingly characterised as they were by the dominance of new means of transport and communication; of a world defined, as they saw it, by those travellers, explorers and colonialists. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Establishing the Empire

1 The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century / Matthew Day Day, Matthew 17

2 Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753-1842 / Michael Talbot Talbot, Michael 36

3 Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum / Henrika Kuklick Kuklick, Henrika 54

Part II Experiencing the Empire

4 A Governor's Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie's Voyage from England to Australia in 1809 / Jane McDermid McDermid, Jane 75

5 Against 'the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex': Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients / Xavier Guégan Guégan, Xavier 93

6 Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries / John M. MacKenzie MacKenzie, John M. 116

Part III Experiencing Other Empires

7 'The Feelings of an Officer': John Stedman in Suriname / Kerry Sinanan Sinanan, Kerry 137

8 British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s / David Rock Rock, David 154

9 'The Bible Dream': Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845-1935 / John Fisher Fisher, John 176

Part IV Experiencing a Post-colonial World

10 Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World / James Canton Canton, James 197

11 Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire / Anna Bocking-Welch Bocking-Welch, Anna 214

12 'In Countries so Unciviliz'd as Those?': The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World / Marc Alexander Alexander, Marc, Andrew Struan Struan, Andrew 232.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Consists primarily of papers derived from a conference.

Includes bibliographical referenes and index.

Electronic reproduction. Basingstoke, England Available via World Wide Web.

ISBN:

1137304189

9781137304186

Publisher Number:

99958954438

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