General Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, Edward Beasley asks how the conventional depictions of the man as a peacemaker in England and a warmonger in Asia can be reconciled. Employing deep archival research and close readings of Napier's published books (ignored by prior scholars), this well-written volume demonstrates that Napier was a liberal imperialist who believed that if freedom was right for the people of England it was right for the people of Sind -- even if "freedom" had to be imposed by military force. Napier also confronted the messy aftermath of Western conquest, carrying out nation-building with mixed success, trying to end the honour killing of women, and eventually discovering the limits of imperial interference.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781138699267
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-138-69926-7
- Verlag: CRC Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.11.2016
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2016
- Serie: Routledge Studies in Modern British History
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 657 g
- Seiten: 388
- Format (B x H): 156 x 234 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt