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Colonial Relations
Adele Perry
出版Cambridge University Press, 2015-04-02
主題Biography & Autobiography / HistoricalHistory / Europe / Great Britain / GeneralHistory / North AmericaHistory / Europe / RenaissanceHistory / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Caribbean & West Indies / General
ISBN11070376119781107037618
URLhttp://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.