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Orb and Sceptre

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Introduction


 
 Introduction
Peter Limb

Part I: Periphery and Metropole in Imperial Overrule


 
Educating Govind Singh
'Princely character' and the failure of indirect rule in colonial India
Fiona Groenhout

 
Shepstone in love
The other Victorian in an African colonial administrator
Jennifer Weir, Norman Etherington

 
The irregular progress of empire
Lord Chelmsford and the Zulu War
Keith Smith

Part II: Colonial Networks of Power and Knowledge


 
Tethered antipodes
Imperial impress in central Perth, Western Australia
Felicity Morel-EdnieBrown

 
King Shaka, the diviners and colonialism
Jennifer Weir

 
George McCall Theal and South African history textbooks
Enduring influence of settler historiography in descriptions of the fifth 'Frontier War' 1818-19
Ryôta Nishino

 
The subaltern's orb and sceptre
Early ANC leaders and the British World
Peter Limb

Part III: Transnational and Global Entanglements


 
'Disturbing and most poisonous agitations'
Henry Parkes, populism and the usurpation of law in New South Wales, 1888
Jeremy Martens

 
The business of empire
The Fujian tea industry and trade through the eyes of Jardine, Matheson & Co., 1928–39
Jason Lim

 
Little worlds
Australian zoological gardens
Natalie Lloyd

 
'My empire, not merely yours'
Australian conservatives and their imperial worlds
Tim Dymond

 
Till death do us part?
Commercial TV, changing family values and Queen Elizabeth II's Commonwealth
Jennifer McGuire

Appendices and Index


 
Norman Etherington
A bibliography of publications and printed public addresses

 
List of contributors

 
Index

Publisher's note


 
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