Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

AvTheodore Koditschek

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

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This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-11-14
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:490 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:366
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107638273

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Theodore Koditschek is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

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'Exploring the troubled, sometimes paradoxical but persistent relationship between British liberalism and the empire has become a major scholarly preoccupation. In this arresting, highly intelligent work, Koditschek brings valuable new specificity and depth to this enquiry through a close reading of both familiar and unfamiliar writers. He examines the contributions of imperial officials and novelists, but especially leading Victorian historians. Most movingly, he traces the agonies of some late nineteenth-century Indian commentators, torn between incipient anti-imperial disquiet and deep attachment to perceived British liberal values.' Linda Colley, Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History, Princeton University

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Imagining Great Britain: Union, Empire and the burden of history: 1800–30; 2. Imagining a British India: history and the re-construction of Empire; 3. Imagining a Greater Britain: the Macaulays and the liberal romance of Empire; 4. Re-imagining a Greater Britain: J. A. Froude: counter-romance and controversy; 5. Greater Britain and the 'lesser breeds': liberalism, race and evolutionary history; 6. Indian liberals and Greater Britain: the search for union through history; Epilogue: from liberal imperialism to conservative unionism: losing the thread of progress in history.