Deirdre Coleman, Coleman Deirdre

Romantic Colonization and British Anti-Slavery

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Produktbeschreibung

Deirdre Coleman shows how the growing popularity of the anti-slavery movement gave a utopian cast to the debate about colonization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 484g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102711
• ISBN-10: 0521102715
• Artikelnr.: 25686838

Autorenporträt

Deirdre Coleman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Sydney.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction: the Cowpastures
1. Henry Smeathman, imperial flycatcher and aeronaut
2. The 'microscope of enthusiasm': Swedenborgian ideas about Africa
3. Rallying under the flag of Empire: the Nova Scotians in Sierra Leone
4. 'New Albion': the camp at Port Jackson
5. Etiquettes of colonisation and dispossession
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index.