Alan Lester (University of Sussex), Kate Boehme (University of Leicester), Peter Mitchell (University of Sussex)

Gebundenes Buch

Ruling the World

Beschreibung

Provides a more balanced understanding of the British Empire and reveals how the men in charge of the most diverse empire in history enforced their ideas of freedom, civilization and liberalism around the world as they managed some of the greatest crises of the Victorian period.

Autor

Alan Lester is Professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex and Professor of History at La Trobe University. He is the author of Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain (2001) and the co-author of Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance: Protecting Aborigines Across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire (2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9781108426206
• ISBN-10: 1108426204
• Artikelnr.: 59641582