The lost imperialist : Lord Dufferin, memory and mythmaking in an age of celebrity

Gailey, Andrew (author.).

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ISBN: 9781444792430
ISBN: 1444792431
ISBN: 9781444792454
Physical Description: print
454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher: London : John Murray, 2015.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-439) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

pt. I Ascendancy of Helen, 1826 -- 72 -- 1. Conflict of Traditions -- 2. Triumph of the Sheridans -- 3. Birth of Àuthentic' Dufferin -- 4. T̀he one great purpose and interest of my life' -- 5. In Search of Favour -- 6. Politics of Romance -- 7. Thrill of Escape -- 8. Àny pearl?' -- 9. Dangers Abroad -- 10. Family Politics -- 11. Missionary Politics -- 12. Family Debts -- pt. II Troubleshooting, 1872 -- 84 -- 13. Canada: The Imperial Frontier -- 14. Frontier Politics -- 15. Reinventing British Canada -- 16. Making of a Celebrity -- 17. T̀he man for high latitudes' -- 18. Revolutionary Times -- 19. Finding One's Assiette -- 20. À master of his profession' -- 21. Statecraft and the Art of Casting a Veil -- pt. III Kipling's Viceroy: Dufferin in India, 1884 -- 8 -- 22. Indian Inheritance -- 23. Governing India -- 24. Playing the Great Game -- 25. Tiger Shooting with Churchill -- 26. Military Consequences of Lord Randolph Churchill -- 27. Very Public Private Life -- 28. Parents and Lovers: An Indian Childhood -- 29. Dufferin's India -- 30. Hariot's Indians -- 31. Face to Face with the New India -- 32. Counter-attack -- 33. Conclusion: Kipling's Viceroy? -- pt. IV Making it Up, 1889 -- 1902 -- 34. Roman Holiday -- 35. Great Prize -- 36. Making Sheridans -- 37. Funding Sheridans -- 38. Decline and Fall -- 39. At the Last -- 40. Mythmaking and the Biographers.