Inquiring into empire : colonial commissions and British imperial reform, 1819-1833 /
"The first pan-imperial history of commissions of inquiry sent across the British empire between 1819 and 1833. Drawing on the commissioners' extensive archive, this work develops a new understanding of early nineteenth-century reform as a part-genuine and part-defensive commitment to mana...
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Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2025.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The state of things
- Reordering new South Wales
- Remaking Caribbean courts
- Defending the crown
- Liberated Africans
- Bonded labour
- Slave traders
- Reforming Ceylon
- Reporting and reforming.