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An ABC of Queen Victoria's empire : or, A primer of conquest, dissent and disruption / / Antoinette Burton
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
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Changing the Victorian subject / / edited and introduction by Maggie Tonkin [and three others] [[electronic resource]]
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
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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
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
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Colonizing nature [[electronic resource] ] : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
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
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Colonizing nature : the tropics in British arts and letters, 1760-1820 / / Beth Fowkes Tobin
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
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The herds shot round the World : native breeds and the British Empire, 1800–1900 / Rebecca J.H. Woods
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]
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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
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Empire as the triumph of theory : imperialism, information, and the Colonial Society of 1868 / / Edward Beasley
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
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