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  title info:
    title: Understanding the British Empire
  name:
    name part: Hyam, Ronald.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Aufsatzsammlung.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xxi, 552 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 23 cm.
  abstract: This wide-ranging volume covers key themes essential to understanding the complexities of the British Empire, including religion and ethics, sexuality, geopolitical and economic dynamics and imperial bureaucracy.
  table of contents: Dynamics : geopolitics and economics. The primacy of geopolitics : the dynamics of British imperial policy, 1763-1963 ; The partition of Africa : geopolitical and internal perspectives ; The empire in a comparative global context, 1815-1914 ; The myth of "gentlemanly capitalism" -- Ethics and religion. Peter Peckard, "universal benevolence", and the abolition of the slave trade ; The view from below : the African response to missionaries -- Bureaucracy and policy-making. Bureaucracy and trusteeship in the colonial empire ; Africa and the Labour government, 1945-1951 ; John Bennett and the end of empire -- Great men. Winston Churchill's first years in ministerial office, 1905-1911 ; Churchill and the colonial empire ; Smuts in context : Britain and South Africa -- Sexuality. Empire and sexual opportunity ; Penis envy and "penile othering" in the colonies and America ; Concubinage and the Colonial Service : Silberrad and the Crewe Circular, 1909 ; Greek love in British India : Captain Searight's manuscript -- Imperial historians. Imperial and Commonwealth history at Cambridge, 1881-1981 : founding fathers and pioneer research students ; The Oxford and Cambridge imperial history professoriate, 1919-1981 : Robinson and Gallagher and their predecessors.
  note: Ronald Hyam.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-uk---
    geographic code: b------
  subject:
    topic: Imperialism
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: Administration
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: Religion
  subject:
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: Colonies
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Imperialismus
  subject:
    topic: Kolonialismus
  subject:
    geographic: Gro€britannien
  classification: DA16 .H943 2010
  classification: 909.0971241
  classification: NK 2100
  classification: NQ 9410
  identifier: 9780521115223 (hbk.)
  identifier: 0521115221 (hbk.)
  identifier: 9780521132909 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0521132908 (pbk.)
  identifier: 2010281557
  record info:
    record content source: UKM
    record creation date: 091216
    record change date: 20151204115044.0
    record identifier: in00003112351
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng