Royal Tourists, Colonial Subjects and the Making of a British World, 1860-1911

254 Pages·2016·16.659 MB·English

by  Charles V. Reed

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General editor: Andrew S. Thompson
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Royal tourists, colonial subjects
and the making of a British world,
1860–1911
SELECTED TITLES AVAILABLE IN THE SERIES
WRITING IMPERIAL HISTORIES
ed. Andrew S. Thompson
EMPIRE OF SCHOLARS
Tamson Pietsch
HISTORY, HERITAGE AND COLONIALISM
Kynan Gentry
COUNTRY HOUSES AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE
Stephanie Barczewski
THE RELIC STATE
Pamila Gupta
WE ARE NO LONGER IN FRANCE
Allison Drew
THE SUPPRESSION OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
ed. Robert Burroughs and Richard Huzzey
HEROIC IMPERIALISTS IN AFRICA
Berny Sèbe
Royal tourists,

colonial subjects
and the making
of a British world,
1860–1911
Charles V. Reed
MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PRESS
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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements—viii
List of abbreviations—x
Prologue: Chief Sandile encounters the British Empire—xi
Introduction—xvii
1 British royals at home with the empire 1
2 Naturalising British rule 35
3 Building new Jerusalems: global Britishness and settler
cultures in South Africa and New Zealand 77
4 ‘Positively cosmopolitan’: Britishness, respectability,
and imperial citizenship 124
5 The empire comes home: colonial subjects and the
appeal for imperial justice 162
Postscript and conclusion 191
Bibliography—197
Index—218
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Writing a book is both a profoundly collective project and an intensely
individual (and lonely) one. As goes the usual caveat, the strengths
of this work can be attributed to the former and its weaknesses only
to the latter. It has been produced with the assistance and support of
countless people. These acknowledgements cannot fully express my
gratitude to them, but I will do my best.
Richard Price was a patient and able adviser, who has shared his
enormous knowledge, insight, and experience while allowing me to
intellectually venture out on my own and to develop my own world-
view as a historian (occasionally intervening, pulling me out of the
conceptual quicksand). He personifies the kind of academic humanism
that inspired me to become a historian in the first place. Paul Landau
encouraged me to pursue my interest in African history. He has treated
me, as a student and as a teaching assistant, with generosity and gra-
ciousness. I can only hope that this work can engage with Africanist
scholars in a thoughtful and productive way that honours his intellec-
tual influence.
I must also thank the many archivists and librarians who have helped
make this dissertation possible: Pamela Clark at the Royal Archives at
Windsor; the staff of the British Library, the National Archives at Kew,
the Special Collections at the University of Nottingham, the University
of Cape Town Archives, and Bodleian Library at Oxford University,
the Queensland Women’s Historical Association; Ruth Gibson at the
University of Birmingham; Ian Sharpe at the Auckland Public Library;
and the staff of McKeldin Library at the University of Maryland and
the staff of the G.R. Little Library at Elizabeth City State University.
I also thank Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for permission to use
materials from the Royal Archives; the Department of History and the
Graduate School at the University of Maryland, the US Department of
Education, Elizabeth City State University, and the National Maritime
Museum for funding my research and conference travel; my parents
and Mary Jane Jackson for supplementing these grants; the Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation, Susan Pedersen, and my fellow seminarians
for their support during the 2010 Modern British History seminar at
Columbia University; and the team at Manchester University Press.
The work has also been informed by the advice and insights of Dane
Kennedy, Anne Rush, Peter Hoffenberg, Vince O’Malley, Andrew
Kellett, Julie Mancine, Chris Saunders, Hilary Green, Beccie Seaman
and Jill Bender.