Reimagining Empire in India: George Thompson, Anti-Slavery Activism, and the Global Networks of British Colonial Reform, 1831-1858 - Hardcover
by Andrea Major
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Availability:In StockContributor:Andrea MajorSeries:Empire's Other HistoriesPublish date:2/6/2025Pages:280
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350451094ISBN-10:1350451096UPC:9781350451094Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, ModernBook Topic:South, 19th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCVTVDFCHJ
Reimagining Empire in India: George Thompson, Anti-Slavery Activism, and the Global Networks of British Colonial Reform, 1831-1858
This book explores debates about East India Company colonialism that took place on the lecture circuits of Britain, in the meeting houses of Calcutta, and at the Mughal court in Delhi in the late 1830s and 1840s. In the decades that followed the Emancipation Act (1833) British abolitionists and colonial philanthropists turned their attention to conditions across the empire, sometimes...
Series: Empire's Other Histories
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350451094ISBN-10:1350451096UPC:9781350451094Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Asia, ModernBook Topic:South, 19th CenturySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.69 inchesWeight:1.2412Product ID:SCVTVDFCHJ
Andrea Major is Professor of Colonial History at University of Leeds, UK, specialising in the relationship between Britain and India during the period of East India Company rule c. 1757-1857. She has published three monographs, four edited volumes, and numerous peer reviewed articles, all dealing in different ways with the relationship between the British colonial philanthropy and social reform...
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