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c2002., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: QWF 968.7 E37b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion (Unnumbered) Volume: 19
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2022., McGill-Queen's University Press Call No: NEW QWF 971.03 H432c Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Colonial Canada changed enormously between the 1760s and the 1860s, the Conquest and Confederation, but the idea of civilization seen to guide those transformations changed still more. A cosmopolitan and optimistic theory of history was written into the founding Canadian constitution as a check on state violence, only to be reversed and undone over the next century. Civilization was hegemony, a contradictory theory of unrestrained power and restraints on that power. Occupying a middle ground between British and American hegemonies, all the different peoples living in Canada felt those contradictions very sharply. Both Britain and America came to despair of bending Canada violently to their will, and new forms of hegemony, a greater reckoning with soft power, emerged in the wake of those failures. E.A. Heaman shows that the view from colonial Canada matters for intellectual and political history. Canada posed serious challenges to the Scottish Enlightenment, the Pax Britannia, American manifest destiny, and the emerging model of the nation state. David Hume's theory of history shaped the Canadian imaginary, in constitutional documents, much-thumbed histories, and a certain liberal-conservative political and financial orientation. But as settlers flooded across the continent, cosmopolitanism became chauvinism, and the idea of civilization was put to accomplishing plunder and predation on a transcontinental scale. Case studies show crucial moments of conceptual reversal, some broadly representative and some unique to Canada. Dissecting the Seven Years' War, domestic relations, the fiscal military state, liberal reform, social statistics, democracy, constitutionalism, and scholarly history, Heaman shows how key British and Canadian public figures grappled with the growing gap between theory and practice. By historicizing the concept of civilization, this book connects Enlightenment ideals and anti-colonialism, shown in contest with colonialism in Canada before Confederation.
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-- Husband-hunting in the Raj.2012., Weidenfeld & Nicolson Call No: 954.03 D278f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When the British went to India to trade and work, the men who left the country knew they would probably not return and married Indian wives or took Indian mistresses. As the East India Company was replaced by government, men were curtailed from doing this by various means. The Company then began to pay passage to India of a number of willing women who were maintained for a year and expected to marry within that time. For young women, unable to make a 'good match' at home, it was a chance to find a husband with prospects, women flocked to India, willing to try to make a go of it. De Courcy brings this forgotten era vividly to life.
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2015., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD Fic Indian 1 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Julie Walters (Oscar nominee for Billy Elliot and Educating Rita) stars as the glamorous doyenne of an English social club in the twilight era of British rule in India. Set in a subtropical paradise, Indian Summers explores the collision of the high-living English ruling class with the local people agitating for Indian independence. As the drama unfolds, the two sides alternately clash and merge in an intricate game of power, politics, and passion."--Container.
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-- Last 1,000 days of the British Empire.By Clarke, P. F2007., Adult, Allen Lane Call No: 941.085 C599l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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1961., Clarke, Irwin Call No: 942.08 C318l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Reid lectures. Volume: 1959.
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2021., Edinburgh University Press Call No: BLK SC 306.362 A4612 Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Scots were involved in every stage of the slave trade: from captaining slaving ships to auctioning captured Africans in the colonies and hunting down those who escaped from bondage. This book focuses on the Scottish Highlanders who engaged in or benefitted from these crimes against humanity in the Caribbean Islands and Guyana, some reluctantly but many with enthusiasm and without remorse. Their voices are clearly heard in the archives, while in the same sources their victims? stories are silenced ? reduced to numbers and listed as property.