Royal Subjects, Imperial Citizens: The Making of British Imperial Culture, 1860-1901

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dc.contributor.advisorPrice, Richard Nen_US
dc.contributor.authorReed, Charlesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2011-02-19T07:02:06Z
dc.date.available2011-02-19T07:02:06Z
dc.date.issued2010en_US
dc.description.abstractThe dissertation explores the development of global identities in the nineteenth-century British Empire through one particular device of colonial rule - the royal tour. Colonial officials and administrators sought to encourage loyalty and obedience on part of Queen Victoria's subjects around the world through imperial spectacle and personal interaction with the queen's children and grandchildren. The royal tour, I argue, created cultural spaces that both settlers of European descent and colonial people of color used to claim the rights and responsibilities of imperial citizenship. The dissertation, then, examines how the royal tours were imagined and used by different historical actors in Britain, southern Africa, New Zealand, and South Asia. My work builds on a growing historical literature about "imperial networks" and the cultures of empire. In particular, it aims to understand the British world as a complex field of cultural encounters, exchanges, and borrowings rather than a collection of unitary paths between Great Britain and its colonies.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/11195
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledbritishen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcitizenshipen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledempireen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledimperialismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledornamentalismen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledvictoriaen_US
dc.titleRoyal Subjects, Imperial Citizens: The Making of British Imperial Culture, 1860-1901en_US
dc.typeDissertationen_US

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