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Ruling the World - Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Hardcover)
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Ruling the World - Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (Hardcover)
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Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most
diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once.
Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's
reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an
entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the
British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the
globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the
Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the
empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between
Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised
peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these
men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and
liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence
and governed in the interests of Britons.
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