Zoë Laidlaw 
Colonial connections, 1815–45 [EPUB ebook] 
Patronage, the information revolution and colonial government

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This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links with governors and colonial officials through which influence, patronage and information could flow. By the 1830s the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionaries also developed personal connections to advance their causes.
However, the successive crises in the 1830s exposed these complicated networks of connection to hostile metropolitan scrutiny. This book challenges traditional notions of a radical revolution in government, identifying a more profound and general transition from a metropolitan reliance on gossip and personal information to the embrace of new statistical forms of knowledge. The analysis moves between London, New South Wales and the Cape Colony, encompassing both government insiders and those who struggled against colonial and imperial governments.

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Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
1. Introduction
I – Metropolitan concerns
2. Networking the Empire
3. Asserting metropolitan control: the Colonial Office 1815-36
II – Colonial struggles
4. The isolation of governors
5. Traffic: the unofficial correspondence of colonial officials
6. Colonial lobbyists: tactics and networks
III – Agendas for imperial reform
7. An information revolution
8. Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography

Despre autor

Zoe Laidlaw is Lecturer in History at Royal Holloway, University of London (Summer 2005)

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 256 ● ISBN 9781784990008 ● Mărime fișier 2.1 MB ● Editura Manchester University Press ● Oraș Manchester ● Țară GB ● Publicat 2013 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 4664130 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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