Colonial Lives Across the British Empire: Imperial Careering in the Long Nineteenth Century

Abstract

Introduction: Imperial spaces, imperial subjects David Lambert and Alan Lester 1. Gregor MacGregor: clansman, conquistador and colonizer on the fringes of the British Empire Matthew Brown 2. A blister on the imperial Antipodes: Lancelot Edward Threlkeld in Polynesia and Australia Anna Johnston 3. Missionary politics and the captive audience: William Shrewsbury in the Caribbean and the Cape Colony Alan Lester and David Lambert 4. Richard Bourke: Irish liberalism tempered by empire Zoe Laidlaw 5. George Grey in Ireland: narrative and network Leigh Dale 6. 'Wonderful adventures of Mrs. Seacole in many lands' (1857): colonial identity and the geographical imagination Anita Rupprecht 7. Inter-colonial migration and the refashioning of indentured labour: Arthur Gordon in Trinidad, Mauritius and Fiji Laurence Brown 8. Sir John Pope Hennessy and colonial government: humanitarianism and the translation of slavery in the imperial network Philip Howell and David Lambert 9. Sunshine and sorrows: Canada, Ireland and Lady Aberdeen Val McLeish 10. Mary Curzon: 'American Queen of India' Nicola J. Thomas 11. Making Scotland in South Africa: Charles Murray, the Transvaal's Aberdeenshire poet Jonathan Hyslop Epilogue: Imperial careering at home: Harriet Martineau on empire Catherine Hall Bibliography.