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Introduction. Historiography and methodology -- Plan of the chapters -- 1. Imagining Great Britain : Union, Empire, and the burden of history, 1800-1830. Maria Edgeworth's romance of Anglo-Irish Union -- Edgeworth, Owenson, and the burdens of history -- The border crossings of Walter Scott -- The Waverley romances of Anglo-Scottish Union -- The reception of Scott's British Unionist romance -- Conclusion : from British to imperial Union -- 2. Imagining a British India : history and the reconstruction of Empire. Orientalism, old and new -- Scottish orientalism and the romance of British India -- John Malcolm and the romance of British India -- Mountstuart Elphinstone and the project of Indian modernization -- James Mill and the British assault on Indian history -- Rammohun Roy's Union of Anglo-Indian history -- Conclusion -- 3. Imagining a Greater Britain : the Macaulays and the liberal romance of Empire. The first Macaulay and the second British Empire -- The second Macaulay and the historian's Empire -- Frustrations in Whig politics -- Encounter with colonial India -- Progressive (English) history as liberal (imperial) politics by other means -- The historical romance of the British center -- Peripheral nightmares : the Indian and Irish centers do not hold -- The reception of Macaulay's History -- Conclusion -- 4. Re-imagining a Greater Britain : J. A. Froude : counter-romance and controversy. Froudian whips -- Henrician flips -- Victorian anxieties and Elizabethan adventures -- Protestantism and the British Union -- Froude's Greater British Victorian vision -- Froude revises Anglo-Irish history -- W.E.H. Lecky's Anglo-Irish counter-history -- Ethnic evolution and Froude's imperial scheme -- Racial exclusion and Froude's oceanic dream -- The race against Froudacity -- Conclusion -- 5. Greater Britain and the "lesser breeds" : liberalism, race, and evolutionary history. The advent of evolution and longue duree history -- John Lubbock and the evolution of "savagery" -- Empire and the classification of racial and evolutionary others -- The evolution of Aryanism : Henry Maine and imperial racial divergence -- R.C. Dutt : evolution and the liberal middle-class other -- E.A. Freeman : the rise of the Anglo-Saxon in racial and evolutionary history -- E.A. Freeman : the triumph of Anglo-Saxonism in the nineteenth century -- The failure of hybrid evolutionism : a tale of two Greens -- William Stubbs and the evolution of the English Constitution -- The English Constitution and Anglo-Indian history -- 6. Indian liberals and Greater Britain : the search for union through history. The Calcutta bhadralok and British racial ideology -- Keshub Chandra Sen and the quest for spiritual history -- Brahmo Samaj and the evolution of spirituality -- Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay and the contradictions of imperial history -- Surendranath Banerjea and the Indianization of Macaulay's constitutional romance -- Dadabhai Naoroji : imperial mis-government and the history of the "drain" -- R.C. Dutt and the riches of ancient Hindu civilization -- R.C. Dutt and the history of modern Indian poverty -- Conclusion : liberal imperialism's reappearance on the periphery -- Epilogue. From liberal imperialism to Conservative Unionism : losing the thread of progress in history. Gladstone's progress : from youthful reactionary to aging radical -- Midlothianizing India : evolutionary objects or historical agents? -- Midlothianizing Ireland : conquered colony or Celtic "Home Rule"? -- Chamberlain and Seeley : Unionism, history, and progress in the high imperial age -- The strange death of liberal imperialism. |
