The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Martin Farr, Xavier Guégan

      Pages 1-14

3. Establishing the Empire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century

      • Matthew Day

      Pages 17-35

   3. Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753–1842

      • Michael Talbot

      Pages 36-53

   4. Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum

      • Henrika Kuklick

      Pages 54-72

4. Experiencing the Empire

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. A Governor’s Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie’s Voyage from England to Australia in 1809

      • Jane McDermid

      Pages 75-92

   3. Against ‘the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex’: Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients

      • Xavier Guégan

      Pages 93-115

   4. Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries

      • John M. MacKenzie

      Pages 116-133

5. Experiencing Other Empires

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. ’The Feelings of an Officer’: John Stedman in Suriname

      • Kerry Sinanan

      Pages 137-153

   3. British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s

      • David Rock

      Pages 154-175

   4. ’The Bible Dream’: Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845–1935

      • John Fisher

      Pages 176-193

6. Experiencing a Post-colonial World

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 195-195

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   2. Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World

      • James Canton

      Pages 197-213

   3. Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire

      • Anna Bocking-Welch

      Pages 214-231

   4. ’In Countries so Unciviliz’d as Those?’: The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World

      • Marc Alexander, Andrew Struan

      Pages 232-249

7. Back Matter

   Pages 250-263

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This is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from international scholars concerned with examining the British experience of Empire since the eighteenth century. It considers themes such as national identity, modernity, culture, social class, diplomacy, consumerism, gender, postcolonialism, and perceptions of Britain's place in the world.

• Colonial cultural history
• 20. Jahrhundert
• 20th century
• Britain
• colonialism
• eighteenth century
• empire
• England
• imperialism
• perception

“The chapters of the second volume are assembled around the narrower theme of British imperialism and organized in thematic groupings that highlight complementary methodologies or research questions. … contributes a unique perspective to understand the relationship between travel and British identity, delivered with insightful arguments and supported with rigorous primary research. Collectively, the chapters build on a growing literature that examines European travel or tourism as more than benign acts of observation or discovery.” (Steve Marti, H-Net Humanities and Social Sciences, h-net.org, August, 2016)

• School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Newcastle University, UK

  Martin Farr

• Department of History, University of Winchester, UK

  Xavier Guégan

Marc Alexander, Lecturer, University of Glasgow, UK Anna Bocking-Welch, Teaching Fellow, University of York, UK James Canton, University of Essex, UK Matthew Day, Head of English, Newman University College, Birmingham, UK John Fisher, Senior Lecturer, University of the West of England, UK Henrika Kuklick, Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA John M. MacKenzie, Fellow, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, UK Jane McDermid, Reader, University of Southampton, UK David Rock, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Kerry Sinanan, Lecturer, University of the West of England, UK Andrew Struan, political historian, University of Glasgow, UK Michael Talbot, PhD, SOAS, UK

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