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British abroad since the eighteenth century :

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1349454443

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9781349454440

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b544788

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British abroad since the eighteenth century :

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experiencing imperialism.

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[Place of publication not identified]

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Palgrave Macmillan

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2014

Text of Note

Preface and Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of illustrations Introduction; Martin Farr and Xavier Guegan PART I: ESTABLISHING THE EMPIRE 1. The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century; Matthew Day 2. Divine Imperialism: the British in Palestine, 1753-1842; Michael Talbot 3. Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early-Twentieth Century Khartoum; Henrika Kuklick PART II: EXPERIENCING THE EMPIRE 4. A Governor's Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie's Voyage from England to Australia in 1809; Jane McDermid 5. Against 'the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex': Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients; Xavier Guegan 6. Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-Set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries; John M. MacKenzie PART III: EXPERIENCING OTHER EMPIRES 7. 'The Feelings of An Officer': John Stedman In Suriname; Kerry Sinanan 8. British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth Century South America: the Rio De La Plata in the 1840s; David Rock 9. 'The Bible Dream': Official Travel in Morocco, c1845 to 1935'; John Fisher PART IV: EXPERIENCING A POST-COLONIAL WORLD 10. Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-Colonial World; James Canton 11. Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire; Anna Bocking-Welch 12. 'In Countries so Unciviliz'd as Those?': the Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World; Marc Alexander and Andrew Struan Index

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