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Ruling the World: Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire
Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons.</p
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Reforming Everywhere and All at Once: Transitioning to Free Labor Across the British Empire, 1837-1838
In late 1837 and early 1838 the British imperial government was preparing for an empire-wide transition from bonded to nominally free labour. This article builds upon recent scholarship that promotes a holistic, global approach to this transition, by narrowing the temporal frame and expanding the spatial. We emphasise interconnectivity and simultaneity rather than chronological succession, and we analyse the governance, rather than the experience, of this transition. Our approach is founded upon analysis of correspondence passing from every British colonial site through the Colonial Office in 1837-8. We suggest that this hub of imperial government sought to reconcile the persistence of different conditions in each colony with the pursuit of three overarching policy objectives: redistributing labour globally; distinguishing between the moral debts owed to different kinds of bonded labour, and managing trade-offs between security, economy and morality. We conclude that the governance of the transition to free labour is best conceived as an assemblage of material and expressive elements of different spatial scales, whose interactions were complex and indeterminate. Through these specific governmental priorities and a particular communications infrastructure, these elements were brought into critical alignment at this moment to shape a significant transition in relations between people across the world
Mean <i>d’</i> scores.
<p>British and Mediterranean perceivers made judgments on whether British and Mediterranean targets were thinking of something positive or something negative. Standard errors of the mean are represented by the error bars.</p
Cue words presented to targets.
<p>Only one word, framed as shown in the figure, appeared (in the centre of the laptop screen) at any one time.</p
Mean percentage of total gaze time (square root transformed) at the eye and mouth across four scenarios.
<p>Error bars report standard errors of the mean.</p
Network performance, for seven scale (left/top) and dichotomised mRS models (right/bottom).
<p>Legend: Blue-Training, Green-Validation, Red-Test, Dashed Lines-Best, Vertical Axis-MSE, Horizontal Axis-Epochs.</p
Linear fit between the estimated and observed outcome.
<p>Linear fit between the estimated and observed outcome.</p
Comparison between predicted and observed outcome.
<p>Comparison between predicted and observed outcome.</p
Ultimate goal is to design a system capable of proposing a dichotomised outcome for each patient with and without endovascular intervention.
<p>Ultimate goal is to design a system capable of proposing a dichotomised outcome for each patient with and without endovascular intervention.</p