The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial LiberalismRoutledge, 3 nov 2016 - 388 pagine 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. |
Sommario
A soldier | |
In America and France | |
Greece and the Greeks | |
Cephalonia and the Greek Revolution | |
Social reform for Cephalonia | |
Departure and bereavement | |
To and from the battle of Miani | |
The battle of Dubba | |
In Scinde as in Cephalonia | |
Victory in the | |
To protect the poor from Barbarian Tyranny | |
Conflict and decline | |
CommanderinChief | |
Home and back | |
Australia and idealism | |
Flogging and politics | |
The north of England | |
Newport and after | |
The conquest of Sind | |
To India and Sind | |
Napiers motivations | |
Reforming the army | |
The Kohat expedition | |
The mutinies of Charles James Napier | |
Napier liberalism and imperialism | |
Bibliography | |
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