Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain A

Politics and Empire in Victorian Britain: A Reader is the first source book to track the role the British Empire played in domestic politics, social attitudes and intellectual and cultural life. Unlike most other books on this subject, the reader also highlights women's contributions to both domestic and imperial questions, and takes account of colonial men's and women's activities as well. The reader introduces the intersections of "home" and "empire" so that the effects of imperialism on Victorian politics and society can be fully appreciated.

Antoinette Burton is Professor of History at the University of Illinois. She is the author of Burdens of History (1994) and At the Heart of the Empire (1998). She is currently at work on a book about Indian women writers and historical imagination.

Timetable of Select Events

ix

Preface

xi

Permissions

xiii

Part I Shaping the Imperial Body Politic, 1829-1857

Emancipation, Representation, and Empire

``Speech at the Bar'' (1829) and On a Bill for the Removal of Jewish Disabilities (1830)

3

(4)

Daniel O'Connell

``Parliamentary Reform'' (1831)

7

(4)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

A Letter from Sydney (1833)

11

(4)

Edward Gibbon Wakefield

Convict Experiences (1837-38): The Chain Gang, Penal Settlements, Transporation as Slavery

15

(3)

Minute on Education in India (1835)

18

(3)

Thomas Babington Macaulay

from English Poor Law History, v. 1 (1929)

21

(4)

Sidney

Beattrice Webb

from Poor Laws and Paupers Illustrated (1833)

25

(3)

Harriet Martineau

``Letters on the Condition of the People of Ireland'' (1847)

28

(3)

T. C. Foster

``The Sugar Question'' (1847)

31

(3)

W. A. Archibald

Anonymous, ``The Ministry and the New Parliament'' (1848)

34

(5)

Cultures of Service, Anti-Slavery, and Reform

``The Horrors of Slavery'' (1824)

39

(6)

Robert Wedderburn

from The History of Mary Prince (1831)

45

(10)

Mary Prince

``Chartism: A New Organization of the People'' (1840)

55

(3)

William Lovett

John Collins

Children's Employment Commission: Appendix to the First Report of Commissioners-Mines (1842)

58

(4)

Speech at Mullinger (1843)

62

(1)

Daniel O'Connell

Letter to the American Women's Rights Convention (1851)

63

(2)

Harriet Martineau

from The Book of Household Management (1861)

65

(3)

Isabella Beeton

Richard Twopenny on Servants in Australia (1883)

68

(3)

Imperial Britons at Midcentury

from The Chinese War (1844)

71

(3)

Lieutenant John Ouchterlony

London Times, ``Chinese Emigration'' (1866)

74

(1)

Robert Thomson on the Chinese in Australia (1888)

75

(2)

``Emigration and Transportation Relatively Considered'' (1847)

77

(4)

Caroline Chisholm

``Shall We Retain our Colonies?'' (1851)

81

(4)

William Greg

1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Cursty Sandboys (1851)

85

(4)

Henry Mayhew

Harriet Martineau on Florence Nightingale (1910)

89

(3)

from the Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands (1858)

92

(6)

Mary Seacole

from Russia and the Eastern Question (1854)

98

(4)

Richard Cobden

Karl Marx on the events of 1857

102

(5)

Part II Liberalizing Imperial Democracy: Midcentury and After

Imagining an Imperial Polity

Report on Canada (1839)

107

(3)

Lord Durham

``Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question'' (1849)

110

(5)

Thomas Carlyle

``The Negro Question'' (1850)

115

(4)

John Stuart Mill

Third Reading of the Reform Bill (1867)

119

(2)

Benjamin Disraeli

``The Canadian Confederation'' (1867)

121

(4)

Auberon Herbert

Proclamation of an Irish Republic (1867)

125

(1)

East India Contagious Diseases Acts (1868)

126

(5)

``Conservative and Liberal Principles'' (1872)

131

(4)

Benjamin Disraeli

``England's Mission'' (1878)

135

(4)

William Gladstone

Women, Politics, and Empire

``The Ladies' Petition [to the Commons for the Right to Vote]'' (1867)

139

(4)

Helen Taylor

Annual Address to the Ladies National Association (1871)

143

(4)

Josephine Butler

Letter to the Marquis of Salisbury (1876)

147

(3)

Mary Carpenter

``The Redistribution of Political Power'' (1885)

150

(3)

Annie Besant

from The High-Caste Hindu Woman (1888)

153

(3)

Pandita Ramabai

``The Women's Suffrage Bill'' (1889)

156

(4)

Millicent Garrett Fawcett

from Travels in West Africa (1897)

160

(4)

Mary Kingsley

from The Queen's Daughters in India (1899)

164

(5)

Elizabeth Andrew

Katharine Bushnell

Varieties of National and Imperial Patriotism

Missionary Correspondence (1841-42)

169

(9)

David Livingston

from Our Medical Liberties (1854)

178

(1)

John Gibbs

Parliamentary speech (1874)

179

(5)

Isaac Butt

Speech at Wicklow (1885)

184

(1)

Charles Stewart Parnell

``A Cry from the Indian Mahommedans'' (1882)

185

(4)

Syed Ameer Ali

The Indian National Congress: Resolutions (1885)

189

(1)

Speech at the second Indian National Congress, Calcutta (1886)

190

(4)

Dadhabai Naoroji

A Bengal Magistrate, ``The Home Rule Movement in India and Ireland'' (1890)

194

(6)

A. E., ``Nationality and Imperialism'' (ca. 1900)

200

(3)

``Women's Role in Sustaining Gaelic Culture'' (1901)

203

(1)

Mary Butler

``Principles of British Policy in Egypt'' (1882)

204

(4)

Sir Richard Temple

``Egypt'' (1882)

208

(2)

Annie Besant

``Gordon's Death: What is the Truth?'' (1890)

210

(7)

C. R. Haines

Part III At Home with Imperial Culture: Toward the Twentieth Century

Empire's Civilizing Missions

``Religious Missions in the East'' (1881)

217

(3)

Sir Richard Temple

``China, England, and Opium'' (1876)

220

(3)

Edward Fry

from Days and Nights in London (1880)

223

(2)

J. Ewing Ritchie

from Behind the Great Wall (1897)

225

(3)

Irene H. Barnes

from London Labour and the London Poor (1861)

228

(4)

Henry Mayhew

from Through the Dark Continent (1879)

232

(3)

Henry Stanley

from Autobiography of an Indian Princess (1921)

235

(3)

Sunity Devi

from In Darkest England and the Way Out (1890)

238

(4)

General William Booth

Anon., ``...the West Indian Court,'' Saturday Review (1886)

242

(3)

Observations on the Indian and Colonial Exhibition (1889)

245

(4)

T. N. Mukherji

``Central Africans'' (1895)

249

(4)

Joseph Salter

from Britons Through Negro Spectacles (1909)

253

(4)

A. B. C. Merriman-Labor

Work, Race, and Politics: Centers and Peripheries

from The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888)

257

(2)

F. A. Steel

G. Gardnet

``The Dock Labourers' Strike'' (1889)

259

(2)

E. M. Clerke

``Labour in Parliament'' (1889)

261

(3)

Thomas Burt

``Trades Unionism for Women'' (1890)

264

(3)

Emilia Dilke

``The Jew as Workman'' (1891)

267

(3)

David F. Schloss

from The Destitute Alien (1892)

270

(3)

W. A. MacArthur

London Times, ``Khama'' (1893)

273

(2)

South African Speeches (1894)

275

(3)

Cecil Rhodes

From The Queen's Empire: A Pictorial And Descriptive Record (1897)

278

(2)

from Fabianism and the Empire (1900)

280

(5)

George Bernard Shaw

The Boer War and the New Century

``The Transvaal'' (1881)

285

(4)

Annie Besant

``The Boers and the Native Question'' (1900)

289

(3)

A. T. Wirgman

from Mafeking Diary (1899-1900)

292

(7)

Sol Plaatje

``What Kind of Sovereign is Queen Victoria?'' (1900)

299

(4)

William T. Stead

from Imperialism: A Study (1902)

303

(3)

J. A. Hobson

from Physical Deterioration (1904)

306

(4)

A. Watt Smyth

On the Australian Constitution (1901)

310

(4)

from Fugitive Anne: A Romance of the Unexplored Bush (1902)

314

(4)

Rosa Campbell Praed

Vida Goldstein on her Senate Candidature (1904)

318

(3)

``The Alien Immigrant'' (1903)

321

(3)

Arnold White

``Canada and the New Imperialism'' (1903)

324

(4)

E. Farrer

The United Irishman and Sinn Fein (1905)

328

(3)

Bibliography of Primary Sources

331

(4)

Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources

335

(6)

Index

341

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