LEADER 03863nam 2200529 a 450 001 9910462953103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4438-4919-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000387705 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH25271770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971856 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12431528 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971856 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10945623 035 $a(PQKB)10960327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1220975 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1220975 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10722237 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL830791 035 $a(OCoLC)851972399 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000387705 100 $a20130621d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe old world and the new$b[electronic resource] $ethe marriage and colonial adventures of Lord and Lady Northcote /$fby Elizabeth Taylor 210 $aNewcastle upon Tyne $cCambridge Scholars Pub.$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-4438-4735-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 $aThis biography tells the story of two British aristocrats, detailing the drama of their personal lives and examining their rule in the two colonies, India and Australia, in which they served. It raises issues of population, immigration, social mobility, and the ethics of the British Empire. 330 $bThis biography is of interest to scholars and general readers alike. It tells the previously untold story of two British aristocrats, detailing the drama of their personal lives and examining their rule in the two colonies, India and Australia, in which they served. It raises issues of population, immigration, social mobility, and the ethics of the British Empire, all of which are relevant to today as debates. - The Northcote as life in England is described in the context of a sweep of British political and social history, in which Harry Northcote directly participated: from the passing of the Third Reform Act in 1884-5 to the bitter battles over female suffrage and the composition of the House of Lords at the close of the Edwardian era. - The action during the couple as colonial adventures in the early 1900's takes place in two different outposts of Empire: India under the Raj, where Harry wielded autocratic power in a Bombay devastated by plague and famine, and the new democratic settler colony of Australia following the federation of separate colonies on a huge yet sparsely populated continent. The transmission of the culture of the Mother Country to the Empire as furthest reaches is studied through Alice as contribution as Governor as wife. The crucial part that women played in the maintenance of the British Empire in both locations is a key theme. - This is a story of landed aristocrats, Victorian politicians and nouveaux riches colonial entrepreneurs. It is about sudden death in 10 Downing Street; an obsessive relationship; the marrying of New World money with old world class; and social elevation from a poor Scottish croft to a historic stately home. It considers the impact on the old world of money made in colonial enterprises, and the cultural exchange resulting from colonial expansion. And it is about the self-managed decline of a British upper class that had held power for almost a thousand years. - - - - - - - - - 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$y19th century 607 $aGreat Britain$xColonies 608 $aElectronic books. 676 $a941.0810922 700 $aTaylor$b Elizabeth$0387039 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462953103321 996 $aThe old world and the new$92107273 997 $aUNINA