Contributor
Harlow, Barbara, 1948-2017.
Imprint:Malden, MA, USA : Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Descriptionviii, 408 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Note:FROM COMPANY TO CROWN, 1757-1857: 1. The British East India Company -- 2. Oriental despotisms and political economies -- 3. Orientalism: the east as a career -- 4. Laws and order: the cases of Thuggee and Sati -- THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL: 5. The "Master Builder" of the Canal: Ferdinand de Lesseps -- 6. Spectacular Suez: the gala opening of the Canal, 1869 -- 7. The battlefield of the future: the Canal and its consequences -- 8. The occupation of Egypt: the Arabi uprising, 1881-1882 -- THE GREAT GAME: 9. The game: the Indian rebellion of 1857-1858 -- 10. The game: the Afghan wars -- 11. The game and its rules: governing the subcontinent -- 12. The game board: getting to and around India -- THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: 13. From Berlin to Fashoda: 1885-1898 -- 14. The mission and its missionaries -- 15. The administrators: Lugard and Rhodes -- 16. Crises of empire-making: Khartoum, South Africa, and the Congo -- VICTORIA: 17. The Crystal Palace and the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- 18. In the streets: reforming the rabble -- 19. "Moral musculature": schoolboys and Boy Scouts -- 20. "Jingoes" vs "Little Englanders": the debate over empire -- 21. From ingénue to empress: the reign of Queen Victoria.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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