Imperial Networks: Creating Identities in Nineteenth-Century South Africa and Britain

by Alan Lester

Imperial Networks investigates the discourses and practices of British colonialism. It reveals how British colonialism in the Eastern Cape region was informed by, and itself informed, imperial ideas and activities elsewhere, both in Britain and in other colonies.

It examines:

* the origins and development of the three interacting discourses of colonialism - official, humanitarian and settler
* the contests, compromises and interplay...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415259142
• ISBN13: 9780415259149
• Release Date: July 2001
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.4"