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Author(s): Zoe Laidlaw
ISBN(s): 9780719069185, 0719069181
Edition: 1
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Year: 2012
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0719069181

ISBN 13: 9780719069185 

Author: Zoe Laidlaw 

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.

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.

Table of contents:

General Editor’s Introduction

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Chapter One Introduction

Part I Metropolitan concerns

Chapter Two Networking the empire

Chapter Three Asserting metropolitan control: the Colonial Office, 1815–36

Part II Colonial struggles

Chapter Four The isolation of governors

Chapter Five Traffic: the unofficial correspondence of colonial officials

Chapter Six Colonial lobbyists: tactics and networks

Part III Agendas for imperial reform

Chapter Seven An information revolution

Chapter Eight Conclusion

Appendix One Senior Colonial Office Staff, 1815–50

Appendix Two Colonial Governors

Appendix Three Colonial Officials

Bibliography

Index

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