Empress: Queen Victoria and India

In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in the last decades. Taylor also reveals the way in w...

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1. Verfasser: Taylor, Miles (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven ; London Yale University Press [2018]
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Zusammenfassung:In this engaging and controversial book, Miles Taylor shows how both Victoria and Albert were spellbound by India, and argues that the Queen was humanely, intelligently, and passionately involved with the country throughout her reign and not just in the last decades. Taylor also reveals the way in which Victoria's influence as empress contributed significantly to India's modernization, both political and economic. This is, in a number of respects, a fresh account of imperial rule in India, suggesting that it was one of Victoria's successes
Beschreibung:Publication date for paperback edition is 2021
Beschreibung:xix, 388 pages illustrations, maps 24 cm
ISBN:9780300118094
0300118090
9780300254976
0300254970

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