Invoking Empire

Imperial Citizenship and Indigenous Rights Across the British World, 1860–1900

Darren Reid (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2025
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
9781526181626 (ISBN)

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Invoking Empire combines nine case studies from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa to demonstrate the diverse ways people continued to interact with imperial authority in the decades before and after their colonies gained self-government, attending specifically to their efforts to apply imperial power in their local communities. -- .

Invoking Empire examines the histories of Canada, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand during the transitional decades between 1860-1900, when each gained some degree of self-government yet still remained within the sovereignty of the British Empire. It applies the conceptual framework of imperial citizenship to nine case studies of settlers and Indigenous peoples who lived through these decades to make two main arguments. It argues that colonial subjects adapted imperial citizenship to both support and challenge settler sovereignty, revealing the continuing importance of imperial authority in self-governing settler spaces. It also posits that imperial citizenship was rendered inoperable by a combination of factors in both Britian and the colonies, highlighting the contingency of settler colonialism on imperial governmental structures and challenging teleological assumptions that the rise of settler nation states was an inevitable result of settler self-government. -- .

Darren Reid is a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at McGill University -- .

Introduction

Part 1 Settler imperial citizenship within representative governments
1 Undermining imperial maladministration: British Columbia, 1869–1870
2 Influencing native policy through the British House of Commons: Natal, 1875–1880
3 Opposing a corrupt colonial legal system: Western Australia, 1886

Part 2 Settler imperial citizenship within responsible governments
4 Securing settler futurity against indigenous resistance: New Zealand, 1860–1861
5 Protestant freedom versus catholic tyranny: Quebec, 1875–1877
6 Mass petitioning as participatory imperial politics: Cape Colony, 1884–1885

Part 3 Indigenous imperial citizenship
7 Petitioning for African voting rights: Cape Colony, 1887
8 Indigenous credibility in the imperial metropole: New Zealand, 1882
9 Humanitarian interference in indigenous delegations: New Zealand, 1884
Conclusion

Bibliography -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	22.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Imperialism
Zusatzinfo	9 Maps
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	494 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht
ISBN-13	9781526181626 / 9781526181626
Zustand	Neuware