Colonial relations : the Douglas-Connolly family and the nineteenth-century imperial world /
A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Series: | Critical perspectives on empire.
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| Summary: | A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father. In the North American furtrade, he married Amelia Connolly, the daughter of a Cree woman and an Irish-Canadian father. Adele Perry traces their family and friends over the course of the 'long' nineteenth-century, using careful archival research to offer an analysis of the imperial world that is at once intimate and critical, wide-ranging and sharply focused. Perry engages feminist scholarship on gender and intimacy, critical analyses about colonial archives, transnational and postcolonial history and the 'new imperial history' to suggest how this period might be rethought through one powerful family located at the British Empire's margins. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 264-287) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781107037618 1107037611 |