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1. The "Durbar Settlement" and the Union of South Africa: Railways and the Logic of Imperial Administration, 1905-1914.

Author

Tumblin, Jesse

Subjects
GOVERNMENT ownership of railroads, COLONIAL railroad law, COLONIES, IMPERIALISM
Abstract

This paper examines the development of railway policy in two British imperial theaters - India and South Africa - and its use in consolidating imperial power as administration shifted from Calcutta to Delhi and the South African colonies merged into a single Union. It argues that colonial administrations conceived of railways as a tool that could stabilize and consolidate colonial political institutions as well as placate colonial subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014

2. The Big Loaf and the First Opium War: Free Trade and Domestic Politics in the British Empire, 1813-1846.

Author

Sargent, Colin

Subjects
OPIUM War, China, 1840-1842, FREE trade, PRACTICAL politics, PRACTICAL politics -- History, WORKING class
Abstract

This paper argues that the Free Trade lobby's attempts to make its primary concern into a lunch pail issue for the masses played a crucial role in providing the political cover for military adventures despite the pacifist inclinations of the leadership of the Anti-Corn-Law-League. This casts new light on the decision to use force against the Qing Empire during what would come to be the First Opium War. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2014