Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Roots of Empire: Early Modern Travel Collections and International Politics in the Long Eighteenth Century

Chapter 3 Divine Imperialism: The British in Palestine, 1753–1842

Chapter 4 Model City: Fact and Fiction in Early Twentieth-Century Khartoum

Chapter 5 A Governor’s Wife in the Making: Elizabeth Macquarie’s Voyage from England to Australia in 1809

Chapter 6 Against ‘the Usual Restraints Imposed upon their Sex’: Conflictive Gender Representations in Nineteenth-Century Orients

Chapter 7 Empire Travel Guides and the Imperial Mind-set from the Mid-Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries

Chapter 8 ’The Feelings of an Officer’: John Stedman in Suriname

Chapter 9 British Communities and Foreign Intervention in Nineteenth-Century South America: The Rio de la Plata in the 1840s

Chapter 10 ’The Bible Dream’: Official Travel in Morocco, c. 1845–1935

Chapter 11 Oriental Expressions: British Visions of Arabia from a Colonial to a Post-colonial World

Chapter 13 ’In Countries so Unciviliz’d as Those?’: The Language of Incivility and the British Experience of the World