The British abroad since the eighteenth century. Volume 2, Experiencing Imperialism : [conference, Newcastle University, April 2010

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. 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 This, the second part of a two volume collection of new essays from international scholars, is concerned with examining the British experience of travel, tourism, and imperialism. It considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration - and exploitation - of other lands and peoples, and also through their encounters with other societies and civilisations. Experiencing Imperialism focuses on colonised lands and peoples, from the British Empire and those of other western powers, from territories ruled by the West to those that gained independence. Together the essays offer fresh and often challenging perspectives on the colonial and postcolonial ages, increasingly characterised as they were by the dominance of new means of transport and communication; of a world defined, as they saw it, by those travellers, explorers and colonialists This book considers the British travelling beyond their isles over the last three hundred years, and through a range of interdisciplinary perspectives reflects on their taste for discovery and self-discovery both through the exploration - and exploitation - of other lands and peoples.