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This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial
slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing
on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees
who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery,
and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores
the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical
and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends
conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated
account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian
Britain, and to re-assess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It
will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and
social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of
the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with
the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the
relationship between past and present.
Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.
This book re-examines the relationship between Britain and colonial
slavery in a crucial period in the birth of modern Britain. Drawing
on a comprehensive analysis of British slave-owners and mortgagees
who received compensation from the state for the end of slavery,
and tracing their trajectories in British life, the volume explores
the commercial, political, cultural, social, intellectual, physical
and imperial legacies of slave-ownership. It transcends
conventional divisions in history-writing to provide an integrated
account of one powerful way in which Empire came home to Victorian
Britain, and to reassess narratives of West Indian 'decline'. It
will be of value to scholars not only of British economic and
social history, but also of the histories of the Atlantic world, of
the Caribbean and of slavery, as well as to those concerned with
the evolution of ideas of race and difference and with the
relationship between past and present.
The essays in this collection show how histories written in the
past, in different political times, dealt with, considered, or
avoided and disavowed Britain's imperial role and issues of
difference. Ranging from enlightenment historians to the present,
these essays consider both individual historians, including such
key figures as E. A. Freeman, G. M. Trevelyan and Keith Hancock,
and also broader themes such as the relationship between
liberalism, race and historiography and how we might re-think
British history in the light of trans-national, trans-imperial and
cross-cultural analysis. 'Britishness' and what 'British' history
is have become major cultural and political issues in our time. But
as these essays demonstrate, there is no single national story:
race, empire and difference have pulsed through the writing of
British history. The contributors include some of the most
distinguished historians writing today: C. A. Bayly, Antoinette
Burton, Saul Dubow, Geoff Eley, Theodore Koditschek, Marilyn Lake,
John M. MacKenzie, Karen O'Brien, Sonya O. Rose, Bill Schwarz,
Kathleen Wilson. -- .
Defining the Victorian Nation offers a fresh perspective on one of the most significant pieces of legislation in nineteenth-century Britain. Hall, McClelland and Rendall demonstrate that the Second Reform Act was marked by controversy about the extension of the vote, new concepts of masculinity and the masculine voter, the beginnings of the women's suffrage movement, and a parallel debate about the meanings and forms of national belonging. Fascinating illustrations illuminate the argument, and a detailed chronology, biographical notes and a selected bibliography offer further support to the student reader.
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