Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860-1911 / Charles V. Reed.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reed, Charles V., author.

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Royal tourism.

Great Britain--Colonies--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Colonies.

History.

British colonies.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxx, 221 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2016.

Summary:

This book examines the ritual space of nineteenth-century royal tours of empire and the diverse array of historical actors who participated in them. It is a tale of royals who were ambivalent and bored partners in the project of empire; colonial administrators who used royal ceremonies to pursue a multiplicity of projects and interests or to imagine themselves as African chiefs or heirs to the Mughal emperors; local princes and chiefs who were bullied and bruised by the politics of the royal tour, even as some of them used the tour to symbolically appropriate or resist British cultural power; and settlers of European descent and people of colour in the empire who made claims on the rights and responsibilities of imperial citizenship and as co-owners of Britain's global empire. Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world suggests that the diverse responses to the royal tours of the nineteenth century demonstrate how a multi-centred British imperial culture was forged in the empire and was constantly made and remade, appropriated and contested. In this context, subjects of empire provincialised the British Isles, centring the colonies in their political and cultural constructions of empire, Britishness, citizenship, and loyalty. The book will be read by scholars and postgraduate students of Britain, empire, and royalty as well as lay readers interested in the history of royalty and the British Empire. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 British royals at home with the empire 1

2 Naturalising British rule 35

3 Building new Jerusalems: global Britishness and settler cultures in South Africa and New Zealand 77

4 'Positively cosmopolitan': Britishness, respectability, and imperial citizenship 124

5 The empire comes home: colonial subjects and the appeal for imperial justice 162.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-217) and index.

ISBN:

0719097010

9780719097010

OCLC:

920730348