Consuls, Colonies and the World

Low-level bureaucrats and the machinery of empire, c. 1880-1914

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4549488
AutoresHeather Streets-Salter, Heather Streets‐Salter (autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume20
Fascículo3
Data de publicação2019-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Colonialism and Colonial History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-5768 • E-ISSN: 1532-5768
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/cch.2019.0037
OpenAlexW2995612453
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas7

This essay brings the history of the multi-national yet unfashionable consular corps into conversation with the history of imperialism and colonialism between 1880 and 1914. It argues that the flows of information circulated by consuls were critical not only to how empires functioned but also to how they functioned in the larger global system of competing empires and independent states. It also argues that consuls were not simply neutral collectors and transmitters of information, but that they served political functions as well. Finally, it argues that consular sources provide a consistent record of the many challenges brought by other powers to colonial rule

Ancient history · Colonialism · Conversation · Empire · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law · Legal and cultural studies analysis · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact