Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- 7 Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis
- 8 ‘A Struggle of Life and Death’
- 9 A New Imperial Government
- Conclusion to Part II: An Empire of Civilisation?
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
7 - Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis
from Part II - 1857: The Year of Civilisation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 December 2020
Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- 7 Setting the Scene: Hubris and Crisis
- 8 ‘A Struggle of Life and Death’
- 9 A New Imperial Government
- Conclusion to Part II: An Empire of Civilisation?
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
The men who governed the empire in 1857; the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing; George Grey and amalgamation; John Bowring, the causes of the Second Opium War and Hong Kong.
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- Ruling the WorldFreedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, pp. 189 - 219Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Lester, A., ‘Settler Colonialism, George Grey and the Politics of Ethnography’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 34, 3, 2016, 492–507.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Peires, J. B., The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle-killing Movement of 1856–7, Ravan Press/Indiana University Press/James Currey, 1989.Google Scholar
Wong, J., Deadly Dreams: Opium and the Arrow War (1856-1860) in China, Cambridge University Press, 1998.CrossRefGoogle Scholar