Liberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination

Nineteenth-Century Visions of a Greater Britain

Bibliographic Data

ID19903776
AuthorsTheodore Koditschek (University of Missouri, corresponding author)
Year2011
Publication date2011-02-10
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueLiberalism, Imperialism, and the Historical Imagination (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511975066
OpenAlexW4251456758
Open LibraryOL24920313M
ISBN9780511975066
GOOGLE_BOOK_IDheOq2CIzEtAC
LanguageEN
Citations received40

This book examines the ways in which imperial agendas informed the writing of history in nineteenth-century Britain and how historical writing transformed imperial agendas. Using the published writings and personal papers of Walter Scott, J. A. Froude, James Mill, Rammohun Roy, T. B. Macaulay, E. A. Freeman, W. E. Gladstone, and J. R. Seeley among others, Theodore Koditschek sheds light on the role of the historical imagination in the establishment and legitimation of liberal imperialism. He shows how both imperialists and the imperialized were drawn to reflect back on the Empire's past as a result of the need to construct a modern, multi-national British imperial identity for a more economically expansive and enlightened present. By tracing the imperial lives and historical works of these pivotal figures, Theodore Koditschek illuminates the ways in which discourse altered practice, and vice versa, as well as how the history of Empire was continuously written and re-written

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · British Empire · Construct (python library) · Economic history · Empire · Expansive · Imperial unit system · Legitimation · Liberalism · Literature · Mill · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Romance · Sociology · Vision · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · 19th century · Geschichtsschreibung · Great britain · Historiographie · Historiography · Imperialism · Impérialisme · Imperialismus · Libéralisme · Liberalismus

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