{"product_id":"midvictorian-imperialists-9780714656984","title":"MidVictorian Imperialists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. \u003cem\u003eMid-Victorian Imperialists\u003c\/em\u003e investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the information regarding the empire by examining the writings of a collection of gentlemen who were amongst the first people to join the Colonial Society in 1868-69. These men included imperial officials, leading settlers, British politicians and writers, and Beasley looks at the common trends in their beliefs about the British Empire and how their thoughts changed during their lives to show how Mid-Victorian theories of racial, cultural and political classification arose. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable Of Contents   Acknowledgments iv   Abbreviations v   Preface by Peter Catterall   I Introduction    II Arthur Mills, Almanacs, and Despotism.    III The Man who ran the Empire.    IV Frederic Rogers and the ‘Transcendental Expectation’    V Letters from Australia, Pt 1: The Citizens    VI Letters from Australia, Pt 2:  The Governor and the End of the World    VII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 1:  Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton    VIII The Variety of Englishmen and their Empires, Part 2.    IX Generalizing about Humanity: Lord Carnarvon.    X Rawlinson, Northcote, and the Imperialism of Information  Management.    XI Conclusion    Bibliography","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49404092318039,"sku":"9780714656984","price":176.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/midvictorian-imperialists-9780714656984","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}