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“…suggesting as it does that Empire was not born with the original sin of racism.” p. 39

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Nial Ferguson, Empire

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“Settlers were possibly the most effective and…pernicious engines of imperial expansion”

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Ashley Jackson: Very short introduction

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Settlerism was not necessarily irrational in its own terms, but it clearly transcended the mundane pursuit of economic maximization. Settlers wanted a life as well as a living.

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James Bellich: Replenishing the Earth

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Empire and religion …”as likely to undermine each other as they were to provide mutual support”

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(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

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The British Empire always seems a very masculine enterprise

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Philipa Levine: Gender and Empire

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Women played a defining part in shaping colonial society
Only when state restrictions had significant support within African communities was there a real impact on local gender relations.

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Diana Jeater, ‘The British Empire and African Women in the Twentieth Century’ in Morgan and Hawkins (eds) Black Experience and the Empire, pp. 228-56

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Missions “profoundly subversive”

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(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

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“By the 1840s, humanitarianism had become a vital component of Britain’s national or Imperial identity and, along with missionary work, pumped a lot of female activity into public and imperial enterprise”

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(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

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By the 1870s the intellectual argument against slavery had been won

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(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

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“In constantly calling the imperial government to its duty, they unwittingly fostered a negative conception of trusteeship, confirming the reality of the ‘white man’s burden’…”

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(Andrew Porter, ‘Religion, Missionary Enthusiasm, and Empire,’ pp. 222-246 in The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. III.)

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Wakefield was riding the wave of public opinion, not creating it

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Bellich

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“…suggesting as it does that Empire was not born with the original sin of racism.” p. 39

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Ferguson

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They dreamt not just of ruling the world, but of redeeming it

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Ferguson

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It (slavery) was abolished despite the fact it was still profitable

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Ferguson

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Their readiness to sacrifice themselves not for gain but for god was what made the Victorian empire different from what had gone before

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Ferguson