Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / A...
Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / A...
Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell. [electronic resource]
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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G 2022/2741
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Language
English
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Physical content
1 online resource (xii, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Content type
text
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computer
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online resource
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...
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2021.
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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 manag...
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Ruling the world : freedom, civilisation and liberalism in the nineteenth-century British Empire / Alan Lester, Kate Boehme, Peter Mitchell. [electronic resource]
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G 2022/2741
Record Identifier
74VKaz0L7ExZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0L7ExZ
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ISBN
1-108-58422-5
1-108-56747-9
1-108-63340-4
DDC
321.08
MMS ID
991024402512702626
