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Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell.

By: Lester, Alan [author.]Contributor(s): Boehme, Kate [author.] | Mitchell, Peter, 1982- [author.]Description: xii, 403 pagesISBN: 1108584225Subject(s): Great Britain -- Colonies -- Administration -- History -- 19th century | Great Britain -- Colonies -- History -- 19th centuryAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleLOC classification: JV1060. | L47 2021
Contents:
Introduction -- Setting the Scene for Emancipation -- Managing Expectations -- Political Freedom -- Settler Liberties -- Free Trade, Famine and Invasion -- Steam and Opium -- Conclusion to Part One: An Empire of Freedom? -- Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis -- "A Struggle of Life and Death" -- A New Imperial Government -- Conclusion to Part Two: An Empire of Civilization? -- Liberal Fathers and Sons -- Imperialism -- Imperial Wars and their Aftermaths -- Conclusion to Part Three: A Liberal Empire?
Summary: Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Setting the Scene for Emancipation -- Managing Expectations -- Political Freedom -- Settler Liberties -- Free Trade, Famine and Invasion -- Steam and Opium -- Conclusion to Part One: An Empire of Freedom? -- Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis -- "A Struggle of Life and Death" -- A New Imperial Government -- Conclusion to Part Two: An Empire of Civilization? -- Liberal Fathers and Sons -- Imperialism -- Imperial Wars and their Aftermaths -- Conclusion to Part Three: A Liberal Empire?

Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons.