The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 Experiencing Imperialism

by Farr, Martin; Guégan, Xavier

• ISBN13: 9781137304179
• ISBN10: 1137304170
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-11-19
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This, the second part of a two volume collection of new essays from international scholars, is concerned with examining the British experience of travel, tourism, and imperialism. It considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred 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 essays 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.

Author Biography

Martin Farr lectures in contemporary British history at Newcastle University, UK, and has published on subjects mainly concerning British politics throughout the twentieth century.

Xavier Guégan lectures in modern colonial history at Newcastle University, UK, and has published on subjects concerning the cultural implications of colonialism in South Asia, the Maghreb, and the Ottoman Empire.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
List of illustrations
Introduction; Martin Farr and Xavier Guégan
PART I: ESTABLISHING THE EMPIRE
1. The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century; Matthew Day
2. Divine Imperialism: the British in Palestine, 1753-1842; Michael Talbot
3. Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early-Twentieth Century Khartoum; Henrika Kuklick
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
5. Against 'the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex': Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients; Xavier Guégan
6. Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-Set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries; John M. MacKenzie
PART III: EXPERIENCING OTHER EMPIRES
7. 'The Feelings of An Officer': John Stedman In Suriname; Kerry Sinanan
8. British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth Century South America: the Rio De La Plata in the 1840s; David Rock
9. 'The Bible Dream': Official Travel in Morocco, c1845 to 1935'; John Fisher
PART IV: EXPERIENCING A POST-COLONIAL WORLD
10. Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-Colonial World; James Canton
11. Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire; Anna Bocking-Welch
12. 'In Countries so Unciviliz'd as Those?': the Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World; Marc Alexander and Andrew Struan
Index