Land Reform, Henry Rider Haggard, and the Politics of Imperial Settlement, 1900–1920
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8959438 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Watts (0009-0000-0418-8571, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 415-435 |
| Publication date | 2021-07-22 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x21000613 |
| OpenAlex | W4206621828 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 35 |
This article considers the links between land reform and emigration through the figure of Henry Rider Haggard and argues that these two issues were deeply intertwined within British politics. Land reform in Britain is often considered as a domestic issue, but imperial campaigners often presented this in terms of the British empire. Haggard campaigned for twenty years for a greater living link to the land in Britain and the empire and believed that this link had profound effects upon English patriotism, character, and health. The imperial frontier had a spirit that improved English character, an idea that Haggard developed in the 1870s and is evident in much of his fiction. Imperial emigration was presented as a patriotic act that aided imperial defence in Australia from Chinese expansion and in South Africa from indigenous opposition. Population was the only way to bolster and defend the empire. Considering his books, speeches, newspaper reviews, and his work for the Royal Colonial Institute, this article argues that British politics and the land between 1900 and 1920 should be considered in an imperial frame. Existing work has neglected the imperial aspect of land reform, and how it was presented by emigration societies, which many imperialists considered an obvious way of dealing with unemployment and increasing urbanization whilst bolstering Greater Britain
Archaeology · British Empire · Colonialism · Economic history · Emigration · Empire · Imperial unit system · Land reform · Opposition (politics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Australian History and Society · History · Law
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The English national character
Destination Australia
Migration and Empire
Science, race relations and resistance
English Culture and the Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850–1980
The Impact of the South African War
China and the Victorian Imagination
The Idea of Greater Britain
Drawing the Global Colour Line
Empire, Migration and Identity in the British World
Revisiting the idea of degeneration in urban Britain, 1830–1900
We Dream Our Dream Still’
The imperial race and the immigration sieve
A new class of Women for the colonies
The First World War
Against ‘Englishness’
Finding Homes Fit for Heroes
Garden cities in colonial Africa
Town planning and garden cities in the British colonial empire 1910–1940
Youth of Darkest England
From War Service to Domestic Service
The History of the Royal Commonwealth Society 1868–1988
Empire and Globalisation
The Crisis of Conservatism
Jesse Collings and land reform, 1886-1914
The Imperial Working Class Makes Itself 'White
Unfit for Heroes
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |