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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Main Authors: Ford, Lisa, 1974- (Author), McKenzie, Kirsten (Author), Parkinson, Naomi (Author), Roberts, David Andrew, 1969- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 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.