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British Empire
The making and unmaking of the largest empire in history — its architects, its servants, and its critics.
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Literature & Cultural Voice
Exploration & Intelligence
Administration & Doctrine
Converse with
Robert Clive Simulacrum
Battle of Plassey · The Making of British India · East India Company · Parliament's Accounting
18th century
Converse with
James Wolfe Simulacrum
Quebec · The Plains of Abraham · The Hero Who Dies at the Moment of Victory · Benjamin West's Painting
18th century
Converse with
Warren Hastings Simulacrum
First Governor-General of India · The Administrator Who Loved India · Burke's Target · Impeachment
18th century
Converse with
Richard Wellesley Simulacrum
Subsidiary Alliance · Doubled British India · Governor-General · Wellington's Brother
18th-19th century
Converse with
Duke of Wellington Simulacrum
India · Waterloo · The Empire as Military School · Tipu Sultan · The Marathas
18th–19th century
Converse with
Charles Napier Simulacrum
Conquest of Sindh · Peccavi · A Very Advantageous Piece of Rascality · The Self-Aware Conqueror
18th-19th century
Converse with
Benjamin Disraeli Simulacrum
Suez Canal · Queen as Empress · Imperial Romance · Political Theatre · One Nation
19th century
Converse with
Henry Maine Simulacrum
From Status to Contract · Ancient Law · India as Legal Laboratory · Comparative Jurisprudence
19th century
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Walter Bagehot Simulacrum
The English Constitution · The Dignified and the Efficient · How Power Actually Works
19th century
Converse with
James Fitzjames Stephen Simulacrum
Liberty Equality Fraternity · The Reply to Mill · Indian Penal Code · Law May Enforce Morality
19th century
Converse with
Charles Gordon Simulacrum
Khartoum · The Martyred General · Imperial Death as Spectacle · Two Days Before Relief Arrived
19th century
Converse with
Lord Cromer Simulacrum
Egypt · The Invisible Empire · Governing Without Owning · The Proconsul as Type
19th-20th century
Converse with
Herbert Kitchener Simulacrum
Omdurman · Sudan · Boer War · War as Industrial Problem · The Mathematics of Slaughter
19th-20th century
Converse with
Alfred Milner Simulacrum
The Boer War · Imperial Federation · Empire by Paperwork · Engineering Conditions for War
19th-20th century
Converse with
Robert Baden-Powell Simulacrum
Scouting for Boys · Mafeking · Imperial Military Virtues as Universal Character Formation
19th-20th century
Converse with
Frederick Lugard Simulacrum
Indirect Rule · The Dual Mandate · Nigeria · Governing Through Existing Structures
19th–20th century
Converse with
George Curzon Simulacrum
Viceroy of India · The Partition of Bengal · Imperial Grandeur · The Complete Believer
19th–20th century
Critics & Dissenters from Within
Converse with
Edmund Burke Simulacrum
Hastings Prosecution · Power Must Answer · The Particular Against the Abstract · Reflections on the Revolution in France
18th century
Converse with
Thomas Clarkson Simulacrum
Abolition · The Brooks Diagram · 35,000 Miles · The Infrastructure of the Moral Campaign
18th-19th century
Converse with
William Cobbett Simulacrum
Rural Rides · The Great Wen · Empire Destroyed England First · The Agrarian Radical
18th-19th century
Converse with
Sydney Smith Simulacrum
Edinburgh Review · Wit as Moral Weapon · Against Evangelical Missionaries · Against Flogging
18th-19th century
Converse with
Thomas Carlyle Simulacrum
Hero Worship · The Occasional Discourse · The Philosophical Ground of Racial Hierarchy
19th century
Converse with
Richard Cobden Simulacrum
Free Trade as the Alternative to Empire · The Manchester School · The Corn Laws · Commerce is the Grand Panacea
19th century
Converse with
John Bright Simulacrum
The Quaker Conscience · Non-Intervention · A Crime Wrapped Up in a Blunder · Corn Laws · Anti-War
19th century
Converse with
Herbert Spencer Simulacrum
Survival of the Fittest · Social Darwinism · Evolution as Universal Law · The Ideological Lubricant
19th-20th century
Converse with
Francis Galton Simulacrum
Correlation · Regression · Eugenics · Fingerprints · The Polymath and His Catastrophic Application
19th-20th century
Converse with
J.A. Hobson Simulacrum
Imperialism: A Study (1902) · The Economic Mechanism · Surplus Capital · The Flag Follows the Dividend
19th–20th century
Converse with
Roger Casement Simulacrum
Congo Atrocities Report · Peruvian Rubber Slavery · The Consul Who Turned · Executed for Treason 1916
19th–20th century
Colonial Voices & Resistance