Browsing by Subject "British Empire"
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Anticipating Freedom: Slave Rebellion, Amelioration, and Emancipation in Barbados, 1816-1838
(2022)Anticipating Freedom explores the numerous ways enslaved and freedpeople shaped the politics and policies of gradual emancipation in the British Empire, using Barbados as a case study. It binds antislavery debates, legislative ... -
Par Avion
(2010-05-04)"Par Avion" is the story of Solon Baath, a mariner in the British navy, as he travels the British Empire in the years following World War I. Partly a story of origins and identity, Par Avion seeks to confront the concept ... -
Rhodesian Sunset: Factional Politics, War, and the Demise of an Imperial Order in British South Africa
(2019-04-15)The pursuit of an unorthodox and revolutionary grand vision of empire by idealistic imperialists such as Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, and Percy FitzPatrick led to the creation of a pro-conflict imperial coalition in South ... -
Swept into the Abyss: A Family History of Cornish Methodism, Missionary Networks and the British Empire, 1789-1885
(2012)On Christmas Day in 1788, on the eve of a year which was to see the entire Atlantic world once more convulsed with revolution and war, a struggling farmer and occasional fisherman from the village of Mousehole in western ... -
"They Have Travailed Into a Wrong Latitude:" The Laws of England, Indian Settlements, and the British Imperial Constitution 1726-1773
(2011)In the mid-eighteenth century the British Crown claimed a network of territories around the globe as its "Empire." Through a close study of law and legal instutions in Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, as well as London, ...
