- Description
- 1 online resource (330 pages)
- Summary
- A study of the lived history of nineteenth-century British imperialism through the lives of one extended family in North America, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. The prominent colonial governor James Douglas was born in 1803 in what is now Guyana, probably to a free woman of colour and an itinerant Scottish father. In the North American fur-trade, he married Amelia Connolly, the daughter of a Cree woman and an Irish-Canadian father. Adele Perry traces their family and friends over the course of the 'long' nineteenth-century, using careful archival research to offer an analysis of the imperial world that is at once intimate and critical, wide-ranging and sharply focused. Perry engages feminist scholarship on gender and intimacy, critical analyses about colonial archives, transnational and postcolonial history and the 'new imperial history' to suggest how this period might be rethought through one powerful family located at the British Empire's margins.
- Series Statement
- Critical Perspectives on Empire
- Uniform Title
- Critical perspectives on empire.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1 Empire, family, and archive; 2 Housekeepers and wives; 3 Free people, servants, and states; 4 Changing intimacies, changing empire; 5 Local elites, governance, and authority; 6 Governors, wives, daughters, and sons; 7 Colonies, nations, and metropoles; 8 Wealth and descendants; 9 Conclusion: empire, colonies, and families; Select bibliography; Index
- ISBN
- 9781316384657
- 1316384659
- 9781139794701
- 1139794701
- OCLC
- 905649915
- Author
Perry, Adele, author.
- Title
Colonial relations: The Douglas-Connolly Family and the nineteenth-century imperial world / Adele Perry.
- Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015.
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Series
Critical Perspectives on Empire
Critical perspectives on empire.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Source of description
Print version record.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1800-1899
- Other Form:
Print version: Perry, Adele. Colonial relations. The Douglas-Connolly Family and the nineteenth-century imperial world 9781107037618 (OCoLC)900685933