1st Edition
Empire as the Triumph of Theory Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868
By Edward Beasley
Copyright 2005
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
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Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earliest... Read more
1. Introduction2. The Founding of the Colonial Society3. The Usual Suspects4. Businessmen5. Travels and Ideas6. Tocqueville and Lord Bury: The Empire of Democracy7. Adderley and the Pattern of the World8. Conclusion
Biography
Edward Beasley
