Edward Beasley: 4 books

Book cover of The Chartist General

The Chartist General

Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial Liberalism

by Edward Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016

General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man...
Book cover of The Victorian Reinvention of Race

The Victorian Reinvention of Race

New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

by Edward Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010

In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the middle...
Book cover of Mid-Victorian Imperialists

Mid-Victorian Imperialists

British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind

by Edward Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2004

Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the...
Book cover of Empire as the Triumph of Theory

Empire as the Triumph of Theory

Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868

by Edward Beasley
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004

Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century...
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