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1. The Victorian Reinvention of Race

   New Racisms and the Problem of Grouping in the Human Sciences

   By Edward Beasley

   Series: Routledge Studies in Modern British History

   In mid-Victorian England there were new racial categories based upon skin colour. The 'races' familiar to those in the modern west were invented and elaborated after the decline of faith in Biblical monogenesis in the early nineteenth century, and before the maturity of modern genetics in the...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
2. Mid-Victorian Imperialists

   British Gentlemen and the Empire of the Mind

   By Edward Beasley

   Series: British Politics and Society

   Throughout the nineteenth century the British Empire was the subject of much writing; floods of articles, books and government reports were produced about the areas under British control and the policy of imperialism. Mid-Victorian Imperialists investigates how the Victorians made sense of all the...

   Published June 20th 2005 by Routledge
3. Empire as the Triumph of Theory

   Imperialism, Information and the Colonial Society of 1868

   By Edward Beasley

   Who were the first people to invent a world-historical mission for the British Empire? And what were the constituencies behind the development of the imperialistic thinking in mid-Victorian England? These questions are vital for understanding where the New Imperialism of the late nineteenth century...

   Published November 24th 2004 by Routledge