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Lädt ... Running the Showvon Stephanie Williams
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. "Running the show" is an account of the small band of men, often accompanied by their wives, who acted as Governors in some of the most pestilential and challenging spots, during the growth of the British Empire. Drawing on a mass of unpublished material, as well as Foreign Office records, Stephanie Williams does a masterful job of bringing to life a vanished era, focussing on about 15 remarkable individuals who, each in their own way, left a mark on the countries where they worked. Two themes jumped out at me: that Great Britain had a policy (which admittedly varied over time) of actively avoiding taking on additional responsibilities -- and it was not unusual for local groups or rulers to petition Great Britain to provide either assistance, support, guidance and protection. Secondly, in various places (West Africa and the Malay peninsula for two) Great Britain took over when slavery (in several forms) was endemic, and it was then the British administrator/advisor/governor who engaged in efforts to eradicate the practice. ( ) keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
'May God forgive us for our sorry deeds and for our glorious intentions' So wrote Hugh Clifford, while he was acting governor of Trinidad, in 1904. What did it take to govern a colony of the British Empire as it rose to its height in the late nineteenth century? What were the governors like? How were they chosen? Catapulted into running a district or even a country of which they knew nothing, how were they controlled from London, thousands of miles away, in the days when communication over land and sea took weeks? What thoughts went through the minds of these men, so far away from home? This is a book about ordinary men and women, with no training, set down in strange places, among strange peoples, facing unimaginable circumstances. Some started wars; others fought disease, injustice, and slavery. From Fiji to the Falkland Islands, from Malaysia to Australia and South Africa, from Lagos to Ottawa here is a glorious kaleidoscope of people, places and events. Running the Showdraws on a vast range of unpublished sources, from Colonial Office despatches, to private letters, diaries and memoirs, and reveals the day-to-day lives, obsessions, eccentricities, griefs and triumphs of governors at the height of empire and their attempts to order the territories in their charge. Governors of British colonies were pioneers of globalization. The decisions they made shaped the world we live in today. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)325.3410922Social sciences Political Science International migration and colonization English Migration to EuropeKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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