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Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Category: British History
Type: Book
Author: Lambert, David and Lester, Alan
Pages: 404
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521847704
Library catalog: Google Books
Year: 2006
Google books link: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yL0G4KdW_3AC
Language: en
Tags: Biography & Autobiography / Historical     History / Europe / Great Britain     History / General     History / Historical Geography     History / Modern / General     History / Social History     Social Science / Customs & Traditions     

Abstract:

This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the stories of men and women who dwelt for extended periods in one colonial space before moving on to dwell in others, developing 'imperial careers'. These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary. Leading scholars of colonialism guide the reader through the ways that these individuals made the British Empire, and the ways that the empire made them. Their life histories constituted meaningful connections across the empire that facilitated the continual reformulation of imperial discourses, practices and cultures. Together, their stories help us to re-imagine the geographies of the British Empire and to destabilize the categories of metropole and colony.



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