Oxford and Empire: The Last Lost Cause?

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Front Matter....Pages 7-7
The View from the Senior Common Room....Pages 9-23
Prophets, Classics and Philosopher Kings....Pages 24-46
Historians and Sentinels of Empire....Pages 47-61
The Round Table and their Friends....Pages 62-79
Professors, Prigs and Pedants — the Critics of Empire....Pages 80-98
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Benares on the Isis — Indian Studies and the Indian Institute....Pages 101-122
Muzzled Lions — the Scientists and Empire....Pages 123-139
Suburbs of the Celestial City — Geopoliticians, Anthropologists and Others....Pages 140-160
Rhodes and the Imperial Athens....Pages 161-181
Front Matter....Pages 183-183
A Share in the Appointments....Pages 184-202
The Missionaries....Pages 203-227
The Oxford of the Southern World and Education in the Empire....Pages 228-256
Nursing Mother of the Elect....Pages 257-283
Epilogue....Pages 284-293
Conclusions....Pages 294-305
Back Matter....Pages 306-366