The British Abroad Since the Eighteenth Century, Volume 2

1. Introduction
Martin Farr, Xavier Guégan

Part I. Establishing the Empire

2. The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century
Matthew Day

3. Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753–1842
Michael Talbot

4. Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum
Henrika Kuklick

Part II. Experiencing the Empire

5. A Governor’s Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie’s Voyage from England to Australia in 1809
Jane McDermid

6. Against ‘the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex’: Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients
Xavier Guégan

7. Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries
John M. MacKenzie

Part III. Experiencing Other Empires

8. ’The Feelings of an Officer’: John Stedman in Suriname
Kerry Sinanan

9. British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s
David Rock

10. ’The Bible Dream’: Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845–1935
John Fisher

Part IV. Experiencing a Post-colonial World

11. Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World
James Canton

12. Ghost Hunting: Amateur Film and Travel at the End of Empire
Anna Bocking-Welch

13. ’In Countries so Unciviliz’d as Those?’: The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World
Marc Alexander, Andrew Struan

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Imperialism and Colonialism, Social History, European History, Cultural History, Modern History