Investigating Empire: Humanitarians, Reform and the Commission of Eastern Inquiry
Investigating Empire: Humanitarians, Reform and the Commission of Eastern Inquiry
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调查帝国：人道主义、改革和东方调查委员会
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10.1080/03086534.2012.730829
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2012
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Z. Laidlaw
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Z. Laidlaw
拿破仑战争之后，英国人对殖民统治，特别是对臣民的待遇的争论，将实际、财政和宗教问题结合在一起。作为解决这些问题的一种手段，英国政府派遣了一系列的旅行委员会来调查和改革其帝国的治理。以英国为基地的人道主义者和废奴主义者利用对帝国对都市社会的腐败影响的焦虑，敦促委员会作为帝国廉洁的载体；他们在殖民地的同行们利用委员会的权威，告知并说服大都市的听众进行具体殖民改革的必要性。本文探讨人道主义的尝试，以影响殖民和帝国的政策，考虑到东部调查委员会，任命于1822年先后调查开普殖民地，毛里求斯和锡兰。该委员会的历史突出了大都市和殖民地人道主义者网络之间的联系，以及反奴隶制活动家和土著权利支持者之间的联系。
In the wake of the Napoleonic wars, British debates about colonial rule and, in particular, the treatment of subject peoples brought practical, financial and religious concerns together. As a means of addressing these problems, the British government despatched a series of travelling commissions to survey and reform the governance of its empire. British-based humanitarians and abolitionists drew on anxieties about the corrupting influence of empire on metropolitan society to press for commissions as vectors of imperial probity; their colonial counterparts harnessed the commissions' authority to inform and persuade a metropolitan audience of the need for specific colonial reforms. This article explores humanitarian attempts to influence colonial and imperial policy by considering the Commission of Eastern Inquiry, appointed in 1822 to investigate successively the Cape Colony, Mauritius and Ceylon. The Commission's history underscores links between networks of metropolitan and colonial humanitarians, and between anti-slavery activists and supporters of indigenous rights.
底层生活：印度洋世界殖民主义传记，1790-1920
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2012
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Anderson, Clare
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Anderson, Clare