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Character, Ethics and Economics: British Debates on Empire, 1860-1914 book cover

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Character, Ethics and Economics British Debates on Empire, 1860-1914

By Peter Cain Copyright 2019
206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge

206 Pages
by Routledge
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This book is an examination of the concept of ‘character’ as a moral marker in the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Its main purpose is to investigate how the ‘character talk’ that helped to shape elite Britons’ sense of themselves was used at this time to convince audiences, both in Britain and in the places they had conquered, that empire could be morally as well as... Read more

Preface Chapter 1. Character, Virtue and British Imperialism Chapter 2. Justifying Empire: An Overview Chapter 3. Boundless Spaces: Character, 'Greater Britain' and 'Anglo-Saxondom' Chapter 4. Cromer, character and Imperialism: The British Financial Administration of Egypt, 1878-1908 Chapter 5. Character, Ordered Liberty and the Civilising Mission in India and Tropical Africa Chapter . The Civilising Mission in India and Tropical Africa: Critics and Doubters, 1860-1914 Chapter 7. The Civilising Mission as the End of Empire? C.H. Pearson and his Critics Epilogue Bibliography Index

Biography

P. J. Cain is Emeritus Professor of History at Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. He is the author, with A. G. Hopkins, of British Imperialism, 1688-2015 (3rd edition 2016).

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