The old world and the new : the marriage and colonial adventures of Lord and Lady Northcote / by Elizabeth Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Elizabeth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northcote, Henry Stafford, Baron, 1846-1911.

Northcote, Henry Stafford.

Northcote, Alice Stephen, Baroness, 1852 or 1853-1934.

Northcote, Alice Stephen.

Great Britain--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (245 pages)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This biography tells the story of two British aristocrats, detailing the drama of their personal lives and examining their rule in the two colonies, India and Australia, in which they served. It raises issues of population, immigration, social mobility, and the ethics of the British Empire.

This biography is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. It tells the previously untold story of two British aristocrats, detailing the drama of their personal lives and examining their rule in the two colonies, India and Australia, in which they served. It raises issues of population, immigration, social mobility, and the ethics of the British Empire, all of which are relevant to today as debates. - The Northcote as life in England is described in the context of a sweep of British political and social history, in which Harry Northcote directly participated: from the passing of the Third Reform Act in 1884-5 to the bitter battles over female suffrage and the composition of the House of Lords at the close of the Edwardian era. - The action during the couple as colonial adventures in the early 1900's takes place in two different outposts of Empire: India under the Raj, where Harry wielded autocratic power in a Bombay devastated by plague and famine, and the new democratic settler colony of Australia following the federation of separate colonies on a huge yet sparsely populated continent. The transmission of the culture of the Mother Country to the Empire as furthest reaches is studied through Alice as contribution as Governor as wife. The crucial part that women played in the maintenance of the British Empire in both locations is a key theme. - This is a story of landed aristocrats, Victorian politicians and nouveaux riches colonial entrepreneurs. It is about sudden death in 10 Downing Street; an obsessive relationship; the marrying of New World money with old world class; and social elevation from a poor Scottish croft to a historic stately home. It considers the impact on the old world of money made in colonial enterprises, and the cultural exchange resulting from colonial expansion. And it is about the self-managed decline of a British upper class that had held power for almost a thousand years. - - - - - - - - -

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4438-4919-7

OCLC:

851972399