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BritainandtheWorld EditedbyTheBritishScholarSociety Editors: JamesOnley,UniversityofExeter,UK A.G.Hopkins,UniversityofCambridge,UK GregoryBarton,TheAustralianNationalUniversity,Australia BryanGlass,TexasStateUniversity,USA TitlesintheBritainandtheWorldseriesinclude: BenjaminGrob-Fitzgibbon IMPERIALENDGAME Britain’sDirtyWarsandtheEndofEmpire BrettBennettandJosephM.Hodge(editors) SCIENCEANDEMPIRE KnowledgeandNetworksofScienceintheBritishEmpire, 1850–1970 JohnFisher BRITISHDIPLOMACYANDTHEDESCENTINTOCHAOS TheCareerofJackGarnett,1902–1919 SpencerMawby ORDERINGINDEPENDENCE TheEndofEmpireintheAnglophoneCaribbean1947–1967 RichardScully BRITISHIMAGESOFGERMANY Admiration,AntagonismandAmbivalence,1860–1914 JoeEaton THEANGLO-AMERICANPAPERWAR DebatesabouttheNewRepublic,1800–1825 HelenevonBismarck BRITISHPOLICYINTHEPERSIANGULF,1961–1968 ConceptionsofInformalEmpire JamesBurns CINEMAANDSOCIETYINTHEBRITISHEMPIRE,1895–1940 MartinFarrandXavierGuégan(editors) THEBRITISHABROADSINCETHEEIGHTEENTHCENTURY Vol.1:TravellersandTourists Vol.2:ExperiencingImperialism Forthcomingtitlesinclude: BarryGough THEPAXBRITANNICA NavyandEmpire JohnGriffiths IMPERIALCULTUREINANTIPODEANCITIES,1880–1939 BritainandtheWorld SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–24650–8hardcover SeriesStandingOrderISBN978–0–230–24651–5spaperback (outsideNorthAmericaonly) Youcanreceivefuturetitlesinthisseriesastheyarepublishedbyplacingastanding order. Please contact your bookseller, or write to us at the address below with your nameandaddress,thetitleoftheseriesandoneoftheISBNsquotedabove. CustomerServicesDepartment,MacmillanDistributionLtd,Houndmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS,England The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2 Experiencing Imperialism Editedby Martin Farr SchoolofHistory,ClassicsandArchaeology,NewcastleUniversity,UK and Xavier Guégan DepartmentofHistory,UniversityofWinchester,UK Editorialmatter,selection,Introduction,index©MartinFarrand XavierGuégan2013 Individualchapters©Respectiveauthors2013 Softcoverreprintofthehardcover1stedition2013978-1-137-30417-9 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. 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To our colleagues, friends and lovers in Newcastle This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofFigures ix SeriesPreface x PrefaceandAcknowledgements xi NotesonContributors xiii Introduction 1 MartinFarrandXavierGuégan Part I EstablishingtheEmpire 1 TheRootsofEmpire:EarlyModernTravel CollectionsandInternationalPoliticsintheLong EighteenthCentury 17 MatthewDay 2 DivineImperialism:TheBritishinPalestine, 1753–1842 36 MichaelTalbot 3 ModelCity:FactandFictioninEarlyTwentieth-Century Khartoum 54 HenrikaKuklick Part II ExperiencingtheEmpire 4 AGovernor’sWifeintheMaking:ElizabethMacquarie’s VoyagefromEnglandtoAustraliain1809 75 JaneMcDermid 5 Against‘theUsualRestraintsImposedupontheirSex’: ConflictiveGenderRepresentationsinNineteenth-Century Orients 93 XavierGuégan 6 EmpireTravelGuidesandtheImperialMind-setfromthe Mid-NineteenthtotheMid-TwentiethCenturies 116 JohnM.MacKenzie vii viii Contents Part III ExperiencingOtherEmpires 7 ‘TheFeelingsofanOfficer’:JohnStedmaninSuriname 137 KerrySinanan 8 BritishCommunitiesandForeignInterventionin Nineteenth-CenturySouthAmerica:TheRiodelaPlata inthe1840s 154 DavidRock 9 ‘TheBibleDream’:OfficialTravelinMorocco,c.1845–1935 176 JohnFisher Part IV ExperiencingaPost-colonialWorld 10 OrientalExpressions:BritishVisionsofArabiafromaColonial toaPost-colonialWorld 197 JamesCanton 11 GhostHunting:AmateurFilmandTravelattheEndofEmpire 214 AnnaBocking-Welch 12 ‘InCountriessoUnciviliz’dasThose?’:TheLanguageof IncivilityandtheBritishExperienceoftheWorld 232 MarcAlexanderandAndrewStruan Index 250 Figures 5.1 SamuelBourne(1869)TodaMund,VillageandTodas,the Neilgherries 106 5.2 SamuelBourne(1869)LepchaManofSikkim,Darjeeling 107 5.3 GertrudeBell(1905),Karaman(Laranda) 109 5.4 GertrudeBell(1905)Untitled[FattuhatGertrudeBell’scamp] 110 10.1 BertramThomasintheEmptyQuarter(1931) 200 12.1 ‘Uncivilised’inHTOED(p.1235ofKayetal.,2009) 235 ix
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