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The thrilling sequel to Fifteen Postcards Disappearing from her
antiques shop amid a spray of bullets, Sarah Lester leaves no body,
only questions. Sarah's friends are left to deal with the aftermath
of her disappearance, including questions about the dubious
provenance of her antiques which threaten to crush the business
she's brought back from the brink of failure. Sarah struggles to
reunite with her father while continuing the search for her mother,
unaware that England's violent colonial past has followed her to
the present, putting herself and those she loves in danger. From
the remote shores of New Zealand, through India's hill-country
stations and onto the streets of Victorian London, Sarah must
determine whether family bonds are strong enough to reach across
the centuries. The Last Letter is peopled with reticent soldiers,
conniving clergymen, fanatical collectors and commission-hungry
auctioneers, taking you on a spectacular journey through time.
The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume
focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and
thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters
arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European
overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of
Decolonisation. Studies by both well-known historians and new
scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of
themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for
the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies
to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. Chapters examine
colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of
colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial
recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. The
Routledge History of Western Empires ranges over five centuries and
crosses continents and oceans highlighting transnational and
cross-cultural links in the imperial world and underscoring
connections between colonial history and world history. Through
lively and engaging case studies, contributors not only weigh in on
historiographical debates on themes such as human rights, religion
and empire, and the 'taproots' of imperialism, but also illustrate
the various approaches to the writing of colonial history. A vital
contribution to the field.
Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by
Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at
any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were
the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What
methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large
and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the
long 19th century? In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of
Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions
across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The
forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise
violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one
of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both
colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As
cultural historians, we locate the power struggles of empire as
much in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or
the signing of treaties. New technologies of communication,
transport and warfare brought an 'Age of Empire' into existence for
the West. But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about
human difference and new beliefs about the state's power to
intervene in the most intimate domains of human behavior.
During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the
Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an
improbable activist, renowned for his exposes of government
misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales.
Charting scandals unleashed by the man known variously as Alexander
Loe Kaye and William Edwards, Imperial Underworld offers a radical
new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative
transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of
the 1820s. In a narrative rife with daring jail breaks, infamous
agents provocateurs, and allegations of sexual deviance, Professor
Kirsten McKenzie argues that such colourful and salacious aspects
of colonial administrations cannot be separated from the real
business of political and social change. The book instead
highlights the importance of taking gossip, paranoia, factional
infighting and political spin seriously to show the extent to which
ostensibly marginal figures and events influenced the
transformation of the nineteenth-century British Empire.
The Routledge History of Western Empires is an all new volume
focusing on the history of Western Empires in a comparative and
thematic perspective. Comprising of thirty-three original chapters
arranged in eight thematic sections, the book explores European
overseas expansion from the Age of Discovery to the Age of
Decolonisation. Studies by both well-known historians and new
scholars offer fresh, accessible perspectives on a multitude of
themes ranging from colonialism in the Arctic to the scramble for
the coral sea, from attitudes to the environment in the East Indies
to plans for colonial settlement in Australasia. Chapters examine
colonial attitudes towards poisonous animals and the history of
colonial medicine, evangelisaton in Africa and Oceania, colonial
recreation in the tropics and the tragedy of the slave trade. The
Routledge History of Western Empires ranges over five centuries and
crosses continents and oceans highlighting transnational and
cross-cultural links in the imperial world and underscoring
connections between colonial history and world history. Through
lively and engaging case studies, contributors not only weigh in on
historiographical debates on themes such as human rights, religion
and empire, and the 'taproots' of imperialism, but also illustrate
the various approaches to the writing of colonial history. A vital
contribution to the field.
Between 1800 and 1920, the territory and influence claimed by
Western empires came to cover a larger portion of the globe than at
any time before or since. Why and how did this happen? What were
the consequences of this unprecedented scramble for dominion? What
methods have historians used to understand the increasingly large
and structurally complex Western empires that emerged across the
long 19th century? In this fifth volume, A Cultural History of
Western Empires in the Age of Empire, we trace these questions
across a period bookended by two devastating global wars. The
forces that enabled unparalleled Western expansion were likewise
violent. Often no less traumatically, the phenomenon was also one
of cultural exchange and negotiated identities in which both
colonized and colonizer were repeatedly made and remade. As
cultural historians we locate the power struggles of empire as much
in identity and ways of life as in the movement of armies or the
signing of treaties. New technologies of communication, transport
and warfare brought an 'Age of Empire' into existence for the West.
But it was equally grounded in new ways of thinking about human
difference and new beliefs about the state's power to intervene in
the most intimate domains of human behavior.
Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married.
But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a
tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to
return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of
Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his
situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on
the barren island. The prisoners band together to create an
extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and
ends and homemade paints. Whilst Emilio's chapel will remain long
after the POW camp has been left to the sheep, will his love for
Rosa survive the hardships of war and separation? For Rosa is no
longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further
into the Italian resistance movement and closer to danger, as
friendships and allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human
perseverance and resilience are at the heart of this strong debut
and the small Italian chapel remains, as it does in reality on the
island of Lamb's Holm, as a symbol of these qualities.
In May 1835 in a Sydney courtroom, a slight, balding man named
John Dow stood charged with forgery. The prisoner shocked the room
by claiming he was Edward, Viscount Lascelles, eldest son of the
powerful Earl of Harewood. The Crown alleged he was a confidence
trickster and serial impostor. Was this really the heir to one of
Britain's most spectacular fortunes?
Part Regency mystery, part imperial history, "A Swindler's
Progress" is an engrossing tale of adventure and deceit across two
worlds British aristocrats and Australian felons bound together in
an emerging age of opportunity and individualism, where personal
worth was battling power based on birth alone. The first historian
to unravel the mystery of John Dow and Edward Lascelles, Kirsten
McKenzie illuminates the darker side of this age of liberty, when
freedom could mean the freedom to lie both in the far-flung
outposts of empire and within the established bastions of British
power.
The struggles of the Lascelles family for social and political
power, and the tragedy of their disgraced heir, demonstrate that
British elites were as fragile as their colonial counterparts. In
ways both personal and profound, McKenzie recreates a world in
which Britain and the empire were intertwined in the transformation
of status and politics in the nineteenth century.
Emilio and Rosa are childhood sweethearts, engaged to be married.
But it is 1942 and the war has taken Emilio far from Italy, to a
tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to
return and help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of
Lake Como, in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his
situation, Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on
the barren island. The prisoners band together to create an
extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds and
ends and homemade paints. Whilst Emilio's chapel will remain long
after the POW camp has been left to the sheep, will his love for
Rosa survive the hardships of war and separation? For Rosa is no
longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further
into the Italian resistance movement and closer to danger, as
friendships and allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human
perseverance and resilience are at the heart of this strong debut
and the small Italian chapel remains, as it does in reality on the
island of Lamb's Holm, as a symbol of these qualities.
1762. Mary is desperate to escape her embittered mother. So when
her marriage to a prosperous sea captain is arranged, she embraces
the damp salt air, cramped conditions and bad food. She sets sail
on the Isabella, away from the land of her childhood towards unseen
places and an unknown future. But being the captain's wife is going
to be harder than she thought. Her husband is still grieving for
his first wife, and Mary can't ignore her feelings towards another
man onboard. Through him, she has a taste of the kind of love she
might have known, and even begins to think that escape is possible.
With ruthless pirates patrolling British waters and ports full of
outcasts with unspoken pasts, Mary learns quickly that loyalties
are always shifting and people are rarely as they first seem. The
Captain's Wife is a richly realised story of adventure about a
strong young woman determined to survive her fate by a wonderful
storyteller.
During a major overhaul of British imperial policy following the
Napoleonic Wars, an escaped convict reinvented himself as an
improbable activist, renowned for his exposes of government
misconduct and corruption in the Cape Colony and New South Wales.
Charting scandals unleashed by the man known variously as Alexander
Loe Kaye and William Edwards, Imperial Underworld offers a radical
new account of the legal, constitutional and administrative
transformations that unfolded during the British colonial order of
the 1820s. In a narrative rife with daring jail breaks, infamous
agents provocateurs, and allegations of sexual deviance, Professor
Kirsten McKenzie argues that such colourful and salacious aspects
of colonial administrations cannot be separated from the real
business of political and social change. The book instead
highlights the importance of taking gossip, paranoia, factional
infighting and political spin seriously to show the extent to which
ostensibly marginal figures and events influenced the
transformation of the nineteenth-century British Empire.
In 1830s Sydney, a visiting aristocrat, Viscount Lascelles, is
exposed as a former convict. In Cape Town, during the same decade,
veiled accusations of incest and murmurs about a concealed
pregnancy surround the family of the Chief Justice, Sir John Wylde.
In these British colonies, the divide between the respectable and
the disreputable is not as vast as might first appear. Rumour and
hearsay muddy the lines between public and private worlds, and
ensure that secret transgressions do not remain secret for very
long.Scandal in the Colonies explores how colonial societies
offered European settlers the opportunity to invent new identities,
an opportunity exploited with a vengeance. But as people, goods and
correspondence crossed the imperial realm, scandal was never far
behind. In this lively and richly researched book Kirsten McKenzie
uncovers the hidden stories of two port towns that were rife with
gossip and dubious reputations. She argues that scandal influenced
imperial policy and became a key element in the emergence of
societies divided by class and race. Touching on themes such as
masculinity and commercial culture, female sexuality in civil
litigation and gossip in political culture, McKenzie offers a fresh
and engaging approach to colonial history.
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