Historiography

Question 1

“…suggesting as it does that Empire was not born with the original sin of racism.” p. 39

Answer 1

Nial Ferguson, Empire

Question 2

“Settlers were possibly the most effective and…pernicious engines of imperial expansion”

Answer 2

Ashley Jackson: Very short introduction

Question 3

Settlerism was not necessarily irrational in its own terms, but it clearly transcended the mundane pursuit of economic maximization. Settlers wanted a life as well as a living.

Answer 3

James Bellich: Replenishing the Earth

Question 4

Empire and religion …”as likely to undermine each other as they were to provide mutual support”

Answer 4

(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

Question 5

The British Empire always seems a very masculine enterprise

Answer 5

Philipa Levine: Gender and Empire

Question 6

Women played a defining part in shaping colonial society
Only when state restrictions had significant support within African communities was there a real impact on local gender relations.

Answer 6

Diana Jeater, ‘The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century’ in Morgan and Hawkins (eds) Black Experience and the Empire, pp. 228-56

Question 7

Missions “profoundly subversive”

Answer 7

(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

Question 8

“By the 1840s, humanitarianism had become a vital component of Britain’s national or Imperial identity and, along with missionary work, pumped a lot of female activity into public and imperial enterprise”

Answer 8

(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

Question 9

By the 1870s the intellectual argument against slavery had been won

Answer 9

(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

Question 10

“In constantly calling the imperial government to its duty, they unwittingly fostered a negative conception of trusteeship, confirming the reality of the ‘white man’s burden’…”

Answer 10

(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

Question 11

Wakefield was riding the wave of public opinion, not creating it

Answer 11

Bellich

Question 12

“…suggesting as it does that Empire was not born with the original sin of racism.” p. 39

Answer 12

Ferguson

Question 13

They dreamt not just of ruling the world, but of redeeming it

Answer 13

Ferguson

Question 14

It (slavery) was abolished despite the fact it was still profitable

Answer 14

Ferguson

Question 15

Their readiness to sacrifice themselves not for gain but for god was what made the Victorian empire different from what had gone before

Answer 15

Ferguson