Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader

Description

The first source book to track the role the British empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life at home, this volume is undergirded by a recognizable political chronology, emphasizing moments of major constitutional reform (1832, 1867) and imperial crisis (1857, 1865, 1882, 1886, 1899). The primary purpose of the reader is to introduce students to the intersections of 'home' and 'empire', so that the effects of imperialism on Victorian politics and society can be fully appreciated.

ANTOINETTE BURTON is Associate Professor of Modern European History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

"An original, enlightening and entertaining choice of texts, offering a refreshing view of 19th century British history, with Ireland, the colonies and women given their proper place for the first time in a work of this kind." --Bernard Porter, Professor of Modern History, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England