The Empire of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Empire of Progress write by D. Stephen. This book was released on 2013-09-19. The Empire of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.
The Empire of Progress
The Empire of Progress - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Empire of Progress write by D. Stephen. This book was released on 2013-09-19. The Empire of Progress available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery.
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement
Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement write by Patrick J. Corbeil. This book was released on 2021-12-01. Empire and Progress in the Victorian Secularist Movement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first extensive historical analysis of the relationship between empire and the Victorian secularist movement. Historians have paid little attention to the role of empire in the development of organized free thought. Secularism as it developed in Britain and its settler colonies was an overtly outward-looking, global ideology in a period marked by the rise of scientific rationalism and belief in the logic of a European civilizing mission. Recent scholarship has focused on how the empire influenced British and American atheists on the question of race. What is missing is an in-depth examination of the formation of secularist ideas about universal progress, ethics, and secular morality. Through an examination of the secularist periodical and pamphlet press, this book argues that the religious diversity of the British Empire helped to shape the ethical worldview of the secularists, providing ammunition for their critiques of Christian morality and the church and justification for their policy reform proposals both in Britain and the colonies.
An Empire on Display
An Empire on Display - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Empire on Display write by Peter H. Hoffenberg. This book was released on 2001-05-20. An Empire on Display available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An examination of world's fairs in Britain and its two most important 19th-century colonies, Australia and India; arguing that the fairs provided a forum for shaping both national and imperial identities.
Amelioration and Empire
Amelioration and Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amelioration and Empire write by Christa Dierksheide. This book was released on 2014-10-14. Amelioration and Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Christa Dierksheide argues that "enlightened" slaveowners in the British Caribbean and the American South, neither backward reactionaries nor freedom-loving hypocrites, thought of themselves as modern, cosmopolitan men with a powerful alternative vision of progress in the Atlantic world. Instead of radical revolution and liberty, they believed that amelioration—defined by them as gradual progress through the mitigation of social or political evils such as slavery—was the best means of driving the development and expansion of New World societies. Interrogating amelioration as an intellectual concept among slaveowners, Dierksheide uses a transnational approach that focuses on provincial planters rather than metropolitan abolitionists, shedding new light on the practice of slavery in the Anglophone Atlantic world. She argues that amelioration—of slavery and provincial society more generally—was a dominant concept shared by enlightened planters who sought to "improve" slavery toward its abolition, as well as by those who sought to ameliorate the institution in order to expand the system. By illuminating the common ground shared between supposedly anti- and pro-slavery provincials, she provides a powerful alternative to the usual story of liberal progress in the plantation Americas. Amelioration, she demonstrates, went well beyond the master-slave relationship, underpinning Anglo-American imperial expansion throughout the Atlantic world.
