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Author(s): Edward Beasley
ISBN(s): 9780714656106, 0203318765
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Year: 2005
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ISBN 10: 0203318765 
ISBN 13: 9780714656106
Author: Edward Beasley

Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century came from. Empire as the Triumph of Theory takes as its sample the more than two hundred earliest members of the first major pro-imperial pressure group: the Colonial Society (founded in 1868, it is now the Royal Commonwealth Society). The book goes on to a careful and well-written tour of the different parts of the Victorian world, putting the founders of the Colonial society into their social contexts. Empire as the Triumph of Theory concludes that imperialism was developed less by investors and office holders than by people who, whatever their other activities, had written books or articles about the cultures of the world. Victorian activities around the globe were multitudinous and varied, and general ideas about England’s imperial mission were, in fact, constructed by members of the Colonial Society, in order to make sense out of information flowing in from this teeming world. This is the first work to explore the social and intellectual origins of the Colonial Society. It brings the mid-Victorians to life, and should become a standard work for specialists on imperialism.

Empire as the Triumph of Theory Imperialism Information and the Colonial Society of 1868 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction
2 The founding of the Colonial Society
A misleading precedent
Counting the founders
Who were the members?
3 The usual suspects
The aristocracy
Was the Colonial Society the creature of one or another political party?
Lawyers
Soldiers
Engineers
The missionary: John Clark Marshman
4 Businessmen
Barings
Men of wealth other than Glyn and Baring
The other bankers of the Colonial Society
The Hentys
Colonial bankers
Counting the bankers in another way
Economic men?
5 Travels and ideas
The founders in the settlement colonies
The founders in Asia and Africa
The pattern of their writings
6 Tocqueville and Lord Bury
The empire of democracy
Lord Bury, officer and amateur
Bury as writer and thinker
7 Adderley discovers the pattern of the world
Wakefield and his vicars
Towards another imperialism: Charles Bowyer Adderley
Adderley on the Colonial Reform Society and why Gladstone ought to join it
Adderley after colonial reform
Adderley, 1861
Adderley on democracy in Europe: the late 1860s
8 Conclusion
Appendix 1 Members of the Colonial Society
Notes
Bibliography
I Archival collections

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