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Colonial Relations
Adele Perry
出版
Cambridge University Press
, 2015-04-02
主題
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
History / Europe / Great Britain / General
History / North America
History / Europe / Renaissance
History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)
History / Caribbean & West Indies / General
ISBN
1107037611
9781107037618
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=IPkGBwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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 mother 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.