The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2: Experiencing Imperialism

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century....Pages 17-35
Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753–1842....Pages 36-53
Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum....Pages 54-72
Front Matter....Pages 73-73
A Governor’s Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie’s Voyage from England to Australia in 1809....Pages 75-92
Against ‘the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex’: Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients....Pages 93-115
Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries....Pages 116-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
’The Feelings of an Officer’: John Stedman in Suriname....Pages 137-153
British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s....Pages 154-175
’The Bible Dream’: Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845–1935....Pages 176-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-195
Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World....Pages 197-213
Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire....Pages 214-231
’In Countries so Unciviliz’d as Those?’: The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World....Pages 232-249
Back Matter....Pages 250-263