The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and Imperial LiberalismGeneral Charles James Napier was sent to confront the tens of thousands of Chartist protestors marching through the cities of the North of England in the late 1830s. A well-known leftist who agreed with the Chartist demands for democracy, Napier managed to keep the peace. In South Asia, the same man would later provoke a war and conquer Sind. In this first-ever scholarly biography of Napier, Edward Beasley asks how the conventional depictions of the man as a peacemaker in England and a warmonger in Asia can be reconciled. Employing deep archival research and close readings of Napier's published books (ignored by prior scholars), this well-written volume demonstrates that Napier was a liberal imperialist who believed that if freedom was right for the people of England it was right for the people of Sind -- even if "freedom" had to be imposed by military force. Napier also confronted the messy aftermath of Western conquest, carrying out nation-building with mixed success, trying to end the honour killing of women, and eventually discovering the limits of imperial interference. |
Contents
A soldier | |
In America and France | |
Greece and the Greeks | |
Cephalonia and the Greek Revolution | |
Social reform for Cephalonia | |
Departure and bereavement | |
To and from the battle of Miani | |
The battle of Dubba | |
In Scinde as in Cephalonia | |
Victory in the | |
To protect the poor from Barbarian Tyranny | |
Conflict and decline | |
CommanderinChief | |
Home and back | |
Australia and idealism | |
Flogging and politics | |
The north of England | |
Newport and after | |
The conquest of Sind | |
To India and Sind | |
Napiers motivations | |
Reforming the army | |
The Kohat expedition | |
The mutinies of Charles James Napier | |
Napier liberalism and imperialism | |
Bibliography | |
Other editions - View all
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, The Conquest of Sind, and ... Edward Beasley Limited preview - 2016 |
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, the Conquest of Sind, and ... Edward Beasley No preview available - 2018 |
The Chartist General: Charles James Napier, the Conquest of Sind, and ... Edward Beasley No preview available - 2017 |