A rich collection of primary materials, the multivolume Archives of
Empire provides a documentary history of nineteenth-century British
imperialism from the Indian subcontinent to the Suez Canal to
southernmost Africa. Barbara Harlow and Mia Carter have carefully
selected a diverse range of texts that track the debates over
imperialism in the ranks of the military, the corridors of
political power, the lobbies of missionary organizations, the halls
of royal geographic and ethnographic societies, the boardrooms of
trading companies, the editorial offices of major newspapers, and
far-flung parts of the empire itself. Focusing on a particular
region and historical period, each volume in Archives of Empire is
organized into sections preceded by brief introductions. Documents
including mercantile company charters, parliamentary records,
explorers' accounts, and political cartoons are complemented by
timelines, maps, and bibligraphies. Unique resources for teachers
and students, these books reveal the complexities of
nineteenth-century colonialism and emphasize its enduring relevance
to the "global markets" of the twenty-first century. Tracing the
beginnings of the British colonial enterprise in South Asia and the
Middle East, From the Company to the Canal brings together key
texts from the era of the privately owned British East India
Company through the crises that led to the company's takeover by
the Crown in 1858. It ends with the momentous opening of the Suez
Canal in 1869. Government proclamations, military reports, and
newspaper articles are included here alongside pieces by Rudyard
Kipling, Charles Dickens, John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Benjamin
Disraeli, and many others. A number of documents chronicle
arguments between mercantilists and free trade advocates over the
competing interests of the nation and the East India Company.
Others provide accounts of imperial crises-including the trial of
Warren Hastings, the Indian Rebellion (Sepoy Mutiny), and the Arabi
Uprising-that highlight the human, political, and economic costs of
imperial domination and control.
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