An ABC of Queen Victoria's empire : or, A primer of conquest, dissent and disruption / / Antoinette Burton |
Autore | Burton Antoinette M. <1961-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (185 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 909.0971/2081 |
Soggetto topico |
Imperialism - Government policy - Great Britain
Imperialism - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4742-3019-9
1-4742-3018-0 1-4742-3017-2 |
Classificazione | HIS037000HIS037060HIS037070 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Afghan Wars -- Bold Fenian Men -- Convict women -- Dagga -- Eyre, Jane -- Famine -- Gandhi, Mohandas K. -- Hosay -- Indenture -- Jihad -- Kingitanga -- Lascar -- Morant Bay -- Native Claim-making -- Opium -- Proclamation of the Irish Republic -- Queensland sugar -- Red River Resistance -- Syphilis -- Tatya Tope -- Urabi -- Vande Mataram -- Winston Churchill -- Xhosaland -- Yakub Khan -- Zam-Zammah. |
Altri titoli varianti | Primer of conquest, dissent and disruption |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910155204103321 |
Burton Antoinette M. <1961-> | ||
London ; ; New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Changing the Victorian subject / / edited and introduction by Maggie Tonkin [and three others] [[electronic resource]] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Adelaide : , : The University of Adelaide Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 281 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina | 820.999409034 |
Collana |
Open Access e-Books
Knowledge Unlatched |
Soggetto topico |
Australian literature - 19th century - History and criticism
English literature - 19th century - History and criticism Colonies in literature |
ISBN |
9781922064745
9781922064752 9781922064769 9781922064738 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | 1. Re-visiting the Victorian subject / Maggie Tonkin, Mandy Treagus, Madeleine Seys and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa -- 2. Queen Victoria's Aboriginal subjects: a late colonial Australian case study / Amanda Nettelbeck -- 3. Identifying with the frontier: Federation New Woman, Nation and Empire / Sharon Crozier-De Rosa -- 4. A 'Tigress' in the Paradise of Dissent: Kooroona critiques the foundational colonial story / Margaret Allen -- 5. The making of Barbara Baynton / Rosemary Moore -- 6. A literary fortune / Megan Brown -- 7. Olive Schreiner's From Man to Man and 'the copy within' / Dorothy Driver -- 8. Guy Boothby's 'Bid for Fortune': constructing an Anglo-Australian colonial identity for the fin-de-siècle London literary marketplace / Ailise Bulfin -- 9. The scenery and dresses of her dreams: reading and reflecting (on) the Victorian heroine in M.E. Braddon's The Doctor's Wife / Madeleine Seys -- 10. The woman artist and narrative ends in late-Victorian writing / Mandy Treagus -- 11. Miss Wade's torment: the perverse construction of same-sex desire in Little Dorrit / Shale Preston -- 12. 'All the world is blind': unveiling same-sex desire in the poetry of Amy Levy / Carolyn Lake -- 13. From Peter Panic to proto-Modernism: the case of J.M. Barrie / Maggie Tonkin. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140424803321 |
Adelaide : , : The University of Adelaide Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457363803321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781883703321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin |
Autore | Tobin Beth Fowkes |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (274 p.) |
Disciplina | 820.9/3213 |
Soggetto topico |
English literature - History and criticism
Gardening - History - 18th century Gardening - History - 19th century Gardening in literature Colonies in literature Nature in literature |
Soggetto non controllato |
Cultural Studies
Literature |
ISBN |
1-283-21208-0
9786613212085 0-8122-0368-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Troping the Tropics and Aestheticizing Labor -- Chapter 1. Tropical Bounty, Local Knowledge, and the Imperial Georgic -- Chapter 2. Provisional Economies: Slave Gardens in the Writings of British Sojourners -- Chapter 3. Land, Labor, and the English Garden Conversation Piece in India -- Chapter 4. Picturesque Ruins, Decaying Empires, and British Imperial Character in Hodges's Travels in India -- Chapter 5. Seeing, Writing, and Revision: Natural History Discourse and Captain Cook's A Voyage towards the South Pole, and Round the World -- Chapter 6. Domesticating the Tropics: Tropical Flowers, Botanical Books, and the Culture of Collecting -- Epilogue: Decolonizing Garden History -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812875103321 |
Tobin Beth Fowkes | ||
Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The herds shot round the World : native breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 / Rebecca J.H. Woods |
Autore | Woods Rebecca J. H |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Disciplina |
338.1/76082094109034
338.176082094109034 |
Collana | Flows, migrations, and exchanges |
Soggetto topico |
Agrobiodiversity
Industrial revolution - Great Britain - History - 19th century Endemic animals - Great Britain Cattle breeds - Great Britain Sheep breeds - Great Britain Animal industry - Great Britain - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
9798890849434
1-4696-3467-8 1-4696-3468-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | A breed in any other place -- Much ado about mutton -- The first breed of cattle -- Native colonials -- A universal type -- The return of the native breed. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823208903321 |
Woods Rebecca J. H | ||
Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eco-cultural networks and the British empire : new views on environmental history / / edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O'Gorman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.709171/241 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture diffusion - Great Britain - Colonies
Human ecology - Great Britain - Colonies Imperialism - History - 19th century Postcolonialism - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4411-2594-9
1-4742-9439-1 1-4742-1061-9 1-4411-0867-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword John M. MacKenziePart I - Framing Imperial and Regional Networks of Nature1. Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire, 1860-1940 James Beattie (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Edward Melillo (Amherst College, USA), Emily O'Gorman (Macquarie University, Australia)2. Climate, Empire and Environment Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham, England) and Sam Randalls (University College, London, England)3. The Chinese State and Agriculture in an Age of Global Empires, 1880-1949 Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University, England)4. Empire in a Cup: Imagining Colonial Geographies Through British Tea Consumption Edward Melillo5. Africa, Europe and the Birds Between Them Nancy Jacobs (Brown University, USA)Part II - Local Cultural Networks of Exchange6. Peradeniya and the plantation economy in Ceylon Eugenia Herbert (Mount Holyoke College, USA)7. Eco-cultural networks in southern China and colonial New Zealand, 1860s-1910s James Beattie8. Colonial Cultures of Hunting Kate Hunter (Victoria University, New Zealand)9. Game of Empires: Hunting in Treaty-Port China Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)10. Experiments, Local Environments, and Networks in Rice farming in South-Eastern Australia, 1900-1945 Emily O'Gorman11. Animals and Urban Environments: Managing Domestic Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg Sean Kheraj (York University, Canada)13. Reflections and New Research DirectionsBibliographyIndex. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910511443203321 |
New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eco-cultural networks and the British empire : new views on environmental history / / edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O'Gorman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.709171/241 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture diffusion - Great Britain - Colonies
Human ecology - Great Britain - Colonies Imperialism - History - 19th century Postcolonialism - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4411-2594-9
1-4742-9439-1 1-4742-1061-9 1-4411-0867-X |
Classificazione | HIS037060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword John M. MacKenziePart I - Framing Imperial and Regional Networks of Nature1. Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire, 1860-1940 James Beattie (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Edward Melillo (Amherst College, USA), Emily O'Gorman (Macquarie University, Australia)2. Climate, Empire and Environment Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham, England) and Sam Randalls (University College, London, England)3. The Chinese State and Agriculture in an Age of Global Empires, 1880-1949 Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University, England)4. Empire in a Cup: Imagining Colonial Geographies Through British Tea Consumption Edward Melillo5. Africa, Europe and the Birds Between Them Nancy Jacobs (Brown University, USA)Part II - Local Cultural Networks of Exchange6. Peradeniya and the plantation economy in Ceylon Eugenia Herbert (Mount Holyoke College, USA)7. Eco-cultural networks in southern China and colonial New Zealand, 1860s-1910s James Beattie8. Colonial Cultures of Hunting Kate Hunter (Victoria University, New Zealand)9. Game of Empires: Hunting in Treaty-Port China Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)10. Experiments, Local Environments, and Networks in Rice farming in South-Eastern Australia, 1900-1945 Emily O'Gorman11. Animals and Urban Environments: Managing Domestic Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg Sean Kheraj (York University, Canada)13. Reflections and New Research DirectionsBibliographyIndex. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787910303321 |
New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Eco-cultural networks and the British empire : new views on environmental history / / edited by James Beattie, Edward Melillo, Emily O'Gorman |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.709171/241 |
Soggetto topico |
Culture diffusion - Great Britain - Colonies
Human ecology - Great Britain - Colonies Imperialism - History - 19th century Postcolonialism - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-4411-2594-9
1-4742-9439-1 1-4742-1061-9 1-4411-0867-X |
Classificazione | HIS037060 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword John M. MacKenziePart I - Framing Imperial and Regional Networks of Nature1. Eco-Cultural Networks in the British Empire, 1860-1940 James Beattie (University of Waikato, New Zealand), Edward Melillo (Amherst College, USA), Emily O'Gorman (Macquarie University, Australia)2. Climate, Empire and Environment Georgina Endfield (University of Nottingham, England) and Sam Randalls (University College, London, England)3. The Chinese State and Agriculture in an Age of Global Empires, 1880-1949 Joseph Lawson (Newcastle University, England)4. Empire in a Cup: Imagining Colonial Geographies Through British Tea Consumption Edward Melillo5. Africa, Europe and the Birds Between Them Nancy Jacobs (Brown University, USA)Part II - Local Cultural Networks of Exchange6. Peradeniya and the plantation economy in Ceylon Eugenia Herbert (Mount Holyoke College, USA)7. Eco-cultural networks in southern China and colonial New Zealand, 1860s-1910s James Beattie8. Colonial Cultures of Hunting Kate Hunter (Victoria University, New Zealand)9. Game of Empires: Hunting in Treaty-Port China Robert Peckham (University of Hong Kong)10. Experiments, Local Environments, and Networks in Rice farming in South-Eastern Australia, 1900-1945 Emily O'Gorman11. Animals and Urban Environments: Managing Domestic Animals in Nineteenth-Century Winnipeg Sean Kheraj (York University, Canada)13. Reflections and New Research DirectionsBibliographyIndex. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823569303321 |
New York : , : Bloomsbury Academic, , 2015 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Empire as the triumph of theory : imperialism, information, and the Colonial Society of 1868 / / Edward Beasley |
Autore | Beasley Edward <1964-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, : Routledge, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (230 p.) |
Disciplina | 325.34106 |
Collana | British foreign and colonial policy |
Soggetto topico | Imperialism - History - 19th century |
ISBN |
1-135-76770-X
1-135-76771-8 1-280-23158-0 9786610231584 0-203-31876-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; List of Illustrations; General Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Founding of the Colonial Society; 3. The Usual Suspects; 4. Businessmen; 5. Travels and Ideas; 6. Tocqueville and Lord Bury: The Empire of Democracy; 7. Adderley Discovers the Pattern of the World; 8. Conclusion; Appendix 1: Members of the Colonial Society; Bibliography; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809228303321 |
Beasley Edward <1964-> | ||
London, : Routledge, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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