Inquiring into Empire: Colonial Commissions and British Imperial Reform, 1819–1833 - Couverture rigide

Ford, Lisa; McKenzie, Kirsten; Parkinson, Naomi; Roberts, David Andrew

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1009470620 ISBN 13 : 9781009470629

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2025

Synopsis

This is the first history to grapple with the vast project of British imperial investigation in the years between the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 and the Great Reform Act. Beginning in 1819, commissions of inquiry were sent to examine law, governance, and economy from New South Wales and the Caribbean to Malta and West Africa. They left behind a matchless record of colonial life in the form of papers, reports and more than 200 volumes of testimonies and correspondence. Inquiring into Empire taps this under-used archive to develop a new understanding of imperial reform. The authors argue that, far from being a first step in the march towards liberalism, the commissions represented a deeply pragmatic, messy but concerted effort to chart a middle way between reaction and revolution which was constantly buffeted by the politics of colonial encounter.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Lisa Ford is a Professor of Legal History at the University of New South Wales and the prize-winning author of three monographs, most recently The King's Peace (2021).

Kirsten McKenzie is a Professor of History at the University of Sydney and Director of the Vere Gordon Childe Centre. Her most recent monograph is Imperial Underworld (2016).

Naomi Parkinson is a historian of the nineteenth-century British Empire at the University of New South Wales, specialising in colonial law, governance and its reform from 1820-1860.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1009470620
• ISBN 13: 9781009470629
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie