History, empire, and Islam E.A. Freeman and Victorian public morality
This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens' Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895). While Freeman is often viewed by modern scholars as a panegyrist to English progress and a proponent of...
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Manchester
Manchester University Press
2020
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction : 'History is past politics, politics is present history'
- Part I. The West
- Chapter 1. The 'Norman Conquest' (1867-79)
- Chapter 2. The Aryan race and 'Comparative Politics' (1873)
- Chapter 3. 'I am no lover of Empire' : The critique of British expansionism
- Part II. The East
- Chapter 4. Islam and Orientalism in the 'History and Conquests of the Saracens' (1856)
- Chapter 5. The Great Eastern Crisis and the 'Oriental Conspiracy'
- Chapter 6. Fear and guilt in the 'Ottoman Power in Europe' (1877)
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- References
- Index