Book contents
- Ruling the World
- Ruling the World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I 1838: The Year of Freedom
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
2 - Managing Expectations
from Part I - 1838: The Year of Freedom
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
- 1 Setting the Scene for Emancipation
- 2 Managing Expectations
- 3 Political Freedom
- 4 Settler Liberties
- 5 Free Trade, Famine and Invasion
- 6 Steam and Opium
- Conclusion to Part I: An Empire of Freedom?
- Part II 1857: The Year of Civilisation
- Part III 1879: The Year of Liberalism
- Appendix: Cast of Characters
- Notes
- Index
- References
Summary
Civil rights, Jamaica, Mauritius; imperial labour shortages; ending apprenticeship in the Caribbean; British settler emigration, Malthus and overpopulation; indentured Indian worker migration, White Australia policies.
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- Ruling the WorldFreedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire, pp. 61 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
References
Further Reading
Banivanua Mar, T., Violence and Colonial Dialogue: Australia-Pacific Indentured Labor Trade, University of Hawai‘i Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Bashford, A., and Chaplin, J., The New Worlds of Thomas Robert Malthus: Rereading the Principle of Population, Princeton University Press, 2016.Google Scholar
Hall, C., Civilising Subjects: Metropole and Colony in the English Imagination 1830–1867, Verso, 2002.Google Scholar
Huzzey, R., Freedom Burning: Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain, Cornell University Press, 2012.Google Scholar
Kumar, A., Coolies of the Empire: Indentured Indians in the Sugar Colonies, 1830–1920, Cambridge University Press, 2017.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Twaddle, M., ed., The Wages of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to Wage Labor in Africa, the Caribbean and England, Frank Cass, 1993.Google Scholar