Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester; 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown; 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston; 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert; 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoë Laidlaw; 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale; 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht; 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown; 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert; 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish; 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas; 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop; Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall; Bibliography.
A series of portraits of 'imperial lives' to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth century.
Review of the hardback: '[Colonial Lives] brings together recent
work on biography and subjectivity on the one hand and the
literature on space and place that has done much to shape
contemporary apprehensions of empire, and it does so with fresh
insight and a lot of intellectual energy as well.' Journal of
Colonialism and Colonial History
Review of the hardback: '… this is a fine collection of scholarly
essays that shed important light on the complex spatialities of the
British Empire. As such it deserves a wide readership. One hopes it
will inspire further scholarship to elucidate those new networks
that were forged by colonised subjects and that similarly spanned
imperial space and shaped subjectivities.' Journal of Historical
Geography
Review of the hardback: 'Colonial Lives amply demonstrates what
biography at its best can do: provide a window into larger subjects
and themes, readable and compelling human sized history.' Journal
of Historical Biography
Review of the hardback: 'This book offers more than simply a new
spatial framework for understanding empire; it is a series of
biographical sketches of life histories that explore the complexity
and ambiguity of trans imperial identity through the tracing and
mapping of careers across multiple sites of empire.' Journal of
Southern African Studies
Review of the hardback: 'Colonial Lives across the British Empire:
Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century, gives readers a
solid and more complex sense of the individuals, many of them not
well known, who travelled to or worked in the remoter parts of the
British empire. Through these individual lives, and as a result of
the editors' fine introduction, the reader better understands the
idiosyncratic, varied, and complicated nature of being a colonial
during that period.' Studies in English Literature 1500–1900
'The volume as a whole works very well as a way of questioning the
conventions of writing about the imperial past … Taken as a whole
the collection offers a series of intriguing paths that begin to
trace out what mightbe a new historical geography of the circuits
of empire.' Cultural Geographies
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