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Colonial relations : the Douglas-Connolly family and the nineteenth-century imperial world / Adele Perry (University of Manitoba).
Van Pelt Library F1088.D672 P47 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perry, Adele, author.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on empire
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Douglas, James, 1803-1877--Family.
- Douglas, James.
- Douglas, Amelia, 1812-1890--Family.
- Douglas, Amelia.
- Douglas, Amelia, 1812-1890.
- Douglas, James, 1803-1877.
- Colonial administrators--British Columbia--Biography.
- Colonial administrators.
- Colonial administrators--Family relationships--History--19th century.
- Families--Colonies--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Families.
- Sex role--Colonies--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Sex role.
- Imperialism--Social aspects--Colonies--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Imperialism.
- Imperialism--Social aspects.
- Colonies.
- History.
- Sex role--Colonies.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- British Columbia--Biography.
- British Columbia.
- Guyana.
- Guyana--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
- Summary:
- "A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father. In the North American fur-trade he married Amelia Connolly, the daughter of a Cree woman and an Irish-Canadian father. Adele Perry traces their family and friends over the course of the 'long' nineteenth-century, using careful archival research to offer an analysis of the imperial world that is at once intimate and critical, wide-ranging and sharply focused. Perry engages feminist scholarship on gender and intimacy, critical analyses about colonial archives, transnational and postcolonial history and the 'new imperial history' to suggest how this period might be rethought through one powerful family located at the British Empire's margins"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Empire, family, and archive
- Housekeepers and wives
- Free people, servants, and states
- Changing intimacies, changing empire
- Local elites, governance, and authority
- Governors, wives, daughters, and sons
- Colonies, nations, and metropoles
- Wealth and descendants
- Conclusion: Empire, colonies, and families.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107037618
- 1107037611
- OCLC:
- 910401847
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