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Cities of Empire

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by Tristram Hunt


  Cloncurry, Valentine Lawless, 2nd Baron

  Cobbett, William

  Cobden-Chevalier Treaty

  cod

  Codrington, Christopher

  Codrington family

  Colchester

  Colenso, Battle of

  Coleridge, Henry Nelson

  Colleton, Sir Peter

  Colley, Linda

  Collingwood, Cuthbert, 1st Baron

  Collins, David

  Collins, Nancy

  Collinson, Bernard

  colonial crimes

  see also slave trade/slavery: brutality

  Colonial Products Exhibition, Liverpool

  colonialism see imperialism

  Colquhoun, Patrick: A Treatise on the Wealth, Power and Resources of the British Empire

  Commonwealth

  Conrad, Joseph

  Conybeare, Henry

  Copley, John Singleton

  Corn Law repeal

  Cornish, Henry

  Cornwallis, Charles, 1st Marquess, Earl Cornwallis

  statue decapitation in Mumbai

  cosmopolitanism/multiculturalism

  Bombay

  Calcutta

  Cape Town

  Liverpool

  Melbourne

  cotton

  and the American Civil War

  Bombay

  Lancashire

  and Liverpool

  Council for New England

  Courteen, Sir Peter

  Courteen, Sir William

  Craig, James

  Crawford, Arthur Travers

  Creasy, Sir Edward

  Creolana

  Crewe, Robert Crewe-Milnes, 1st Marquess of

  cricket

  crime

  colonial crimes see also slave trade/slavery: brutality

  Hong Kong

  Cromwell, Oliver

  and Ireland

  Cross, Charles

  Cumberbatch family

  Cunard Company

  Cunynghame, Arthur

  Curzon, George, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston

  Cutty Sark

  Dadabhai, Naoroji

  Daily Mail

  Daily Mirror

  Dalhousie, James Broun-Ramsay, 1st Marquess of

  Dalrymple, William

  Danes

  Dartmouth

  Darwin, John

  Dasgupta, Swapan

  Davis, Sir John

  Davis, Mike

  De Latocnaye, Jacques Louis de Bougrenet

  Declaratory Act of, 1720 (Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act)

  Declaratory Act of, 1766 (American Colonies Act)

  decolonization

  Defoe, Daniel

  deindustrialization

  Delft

  Delhi

  building of Shahjahanabad

  Delhi Fort

  Red Fort

  siege of

  see also New Delhi

  Delhi Ridge

  democracy

  Boston

  and Hong Kong

  Indian

  Deng Xiaoping, ‘one country, two systems’

  Dent & Co.

  Derbe Arboretum

  Dias, Bartolomeu

  Dickens, Charles

  Great Expectations

  Dickinson, John

  Dickson, William

  Dilke, Charles

  Dirks, Nicholas B.

  Disraeli, Benjamin

  Royal Titles Act (1876)

  Tancred, or The New Crusade

  Dodington Hall, Gloucester

  Dorchester, Massachusetts

  Douglas, Sylvester

  Downey, Richard

  Drax, Eliza

  Drax, Henry

  Drax, James

  Drax family

  Drax Hall, Barbados

  Dublin

  Carlisle Bridge (O’Connell Bridge)

  Castle

  City Assembly

  civil society

  Custom House

  development of city from Viking times

  Elizabeth II’s visit (2011)

  Essex Bridge (now Grattan Bridge)

  Four Courts

  General Post Office

  Georgian architecture

  ‘Georgian Dublin’ of today

  Great Musick Hall

  Huguenot arrivals

  Leinster House

  as a martyr’s memorial

  Mornington House

  Nelson’s Pillar

  overcrowding

  Parliament House

  population growth

  post-1922 obliteration of Georgian history and architecture

  poverty

  preservationism

  Rotunda Hospital

  Royal Exchange

  rural immigration to

  sanitation

  social excesses

  stately homes

  theatre

  trade and economy

  unemployment

  Wide Street Commissioners

  Dublin Journal

  Dublin Magazine

  Dublin Society

  Dudley, Thomas

  Dundas, Francis

  Dundas, Henry, 1st Viscount Melville

  and Cape Town

  and China

  and India

  and Ireland

  Dunton, John

  Durbar imperialism

  Dutch East India Company see Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)

  Dutch Empire

  and Bengal

  and the Cape

  and the East Indies

  Great Trek

  and the Rawagede massacre

  Dutch people see Dutch Empire; Netherlands/the Dutch

  Dwivedi, Sharada

  Dyre, William

  East India Company

  barbarity

  Bengal, the Plassey revolution and

  and Bombay

  and Calcutta

  and the Cape

  and China

  and the Church

  cohabiting of employees with Indian women

  College, Haileybury

  Cornwallis’s ‘Permament Settlement’

  disbandment and transfer of authority to the Crown

  Dutch see Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC)

  and the East India Regulating Act

  education

  establishment

  and Fort William College

  Maratha wars

  monopoly abolition

  opium trade

  and Siraj-ud-Daula’s capture of Calcutta

  and tea

  Writers’ Building, Calcutta

  East India Regulating Act

  East Indies/Indonesia

  Rawagede massacre

  Ecclesiologist

  Economist, The

  Edinburgh

  education

  Boston

  Calcutta, Fort William College

  Cape Town

  Christian, Hong Kong

  East India Company

  spread, with the railways

  Edward VII

  Edward VIII

  Edwards, Bryan

  Eitel, Ernst Johann

  Elder Dempster shipping line

  Eleanor

  Elgar, Sir Edward

  Elizabeth I

  Elizabeth II

  Elizabetha (planned city)

  Elliott, Charles

  Elphinstone, Keith

  Elphinstone, Mountstuart

  Elwood, Anne

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo

  Emerson, William

  Empire Day

  Empire Marketing Board

  Empire Windrush, SS

  Engels, Friedrich

  English Civil War

  Ensor, John

  Equiano, Olaudah (Gustavus Vassa, the African)

  erastianism

  Erving, John

  European Economic Community

  Everton Football Club

  Fairburn, John

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bsp; Fairfax family

  Falkland, Amelia Carey, Viscountess

  Fawkes, Guy

  Fay, Eliza

  Felixstowe

  Fenwick, Eliza

  Ferguson, Niall

  Fermor, Patrick Leigh

  First World War

  Fisher, Richard

  fishing/fisheries

  cod

  Fitzgerald, Edward, Lord

  Fitzgerald, Emily, Duchess of Leinster

  Fitzgerald, James, 1st Duke of Leinster

  Fitzherbert, Humphrey

  Fitzroy, Robert

  Flinders, Matthew

  Foochow (Fuzhou)

  Ford, Francis

  Ford (company)

  Forrest, G. W.

  Forstall, Richard

  Foster, Roy

  Foster Brewing Company

  Fowler, Frank

  Framjee, Cursetjee

  France

  Algerian massacre by Parisian police

  British blockade of

  British Empire vs Bourbon France

  French and Indian War (Seven Years’ War)

  French navy

  French Revolutionary Wars

  see also French Empire

  Francis, Sir Philip

  Franklin, Benjamin

  Franklin, Josiah

  Fraser, Murray

  Fraser, Sir Lovat

  Freeman, John: Lights and Shadows of Melbourne Life

  French Empire

  Anglo-French invasion of Canton

  Anglo-French wars

  and Bengal

  Franco-British Peace of Paris

  French invasion of Holland

  Ireland threatened by

  and South Africa

  and the West Indies

  Frere, Sir Bartle

  Frere, Henry

  Frere family

  Friend of China

  Froude, J. A.

  Furneaux, James

  Gallagher, John

  Gallipoli

  Gamble, John

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gandon, James

  Garden City tradition

  gardens see parks and gardens

  Gardiner, Luke

  Garrett, George

  Garrick, David

  Geddes, Patrick

  George III

  George V

  George VI

  Germany

  Gerry and the Pacemakers

  Ghana

  Ghosh, Amitav: Sea of Poppiesn

  Gibb, Livingston & Co.

  Gibberd, Sir Frederick

  Gibbon, Edward: History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

  Gibbs, James

  Gibraltar

  Gilbert, Sir Giles

  Gladstone, William

  Glasgow

  ‘global cities’

  Glorious Revolution

  Goa

  gold

  Goldfinch, John

  Gothic revival

  Gott, Richard

  Grace, W. G.

  Graham, Maria

  Grant, Charles

  Grant, Linda

  Grant, Ulysses S.

  Grattan, Henry

  Gray, James

  Great Famine (Ireland, 1845–52)

  Great Indian Peninsular Railway

  Great Reform Act (1832)

  Great War

  Green, J. R.

  Green, Samuel

  Grenville, George

  Grenville, William, 1st Baron

  Guadeloupe

  Guardian (ship)

  Gujarat

  Gupta, Samita

  Hague, William

  Halifax

  Hallam, Henry

  Hamilton, Alexander

  Hamilton Lindsay, H.

  Hancock, John

  Hancock, Nathaniel

  Hancock, Thomas

  Hancock family, House of Hancock

  Handsworth riots

  Hanoverian kings

  Hardinge, Charles, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst

  Harewood House, Yorkshire

  Harlow, Vincent

  Harrison

  Hartley, Jesse, Albert Dock

  Harvard, John

  Harvard College

  Harwich

  Hassall, Samuel

  Hastings, Warren

  Hatton, Derek

  Haussmann, Georges-Eugène

  Hawley, Henry

  Hay, James, 1st Earl of Carlisle

  Haynes family

  Heath, Edward

  Heber, Reginald

  Henry II

  Herero peoples

  Heseltine, Michael

  Hickey, William

  Hicky, John

  Hill, Christopher

  Hillsborough disaster

  Hinduism

  Shiv Sena

  History of Ned Evans, The

  Hoban, James

  Hobart, Robert, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire

  Hobson, J. A.

  Hoddle, Robert

  Holetown

  Holland see Netherlands/the Dutch

  Hollande, François

  Holt, Alfred

  Hong Kong

  architecture

  Bank of China

  British bigotry/racism in

  British capture

  British resistance to Chinese political representation

  British rights obtained during First Opium War

  Cantonese immigration during Taiping Rebellion

  capitalism

  Chinese population

  Chinese resistance and violence during British occupation

  ‘Chinese traitors’ (hanjian)

  Christian mission in

  civil society

  and the closing of China’s trade under Maoism

  colonial legacy of mental architecture

  commercial premises

  and communism

  crime

  diseases

  District Watch Committee

  divided urban topography

  East Asian merchants

  East Point

  European enchantment with

  and free trade

  General Strike

  as a global trading hub

  Government House

  gunboat diplomacy

  handing back to China

  Holt’s wharfage facilities in

  Jardine House

  Medical Missionary Hospital

  Morrison Education Society School

  mortality rate

  Nam Pak Hong guild

  and the opium trade

  and the Opium Wars

  as Pearl of the Orient

  Po Leung Kuk

  Renaissance Revival cityscape

  sanitation

  and Sino-British harmony

  social segregation

  St John’s Cathedral

  transformation through ‘colonizing genius of the English’ (Verne)

  Tung Wah Hospital

  Union Chapel

  Victoria Peak

  as way-station for British prize of China

  Hong Kong Association and Society

  Hong Kong Club

  Horniman, Benjamin

  Hottentots see Khoe-San (‘Bushmen’/Hottentots)

  Howe, Richard, 1st Earl

  Howe, Sir Geoffrey

  Huguenots

  Hunt, Pauline

  Hunt, Roland

  Huskisson, William

  Hussein Shah, Sultan

  Hutchinson, Anne

  Hutchinson, Thomas

  Huxley, Aldous

  Hyndman, Henry

  ibn Qadi Abd al-Salam, Abdullah (Tuan Guru)

  Imperial Economic Committee

  imperialism

  American

  architecture and a new imperial landscape

  British see British imperialism

  European battle for colonial supremacy

  ‘primitive accumulation’ of European colonial system (Marx)

  ‘Scramble for A
frica’

  see also British Empire; Dutch Empire; French Empire; Spanish Empire

  Independent Advertiser

  India Act (1784)

  India Gazette

  Indian Councils Act

  Indian independence

  Amritsar Massacre

  Dominion status path

  and Durbar imperialism

  effect on Britain’s imperial

  cities

  and the fall of the Raj

  First War of Independence

  Gandhi’s ‘Quit India’ campaign

  Independence Day

  nationalist struggle following Bengal partitioning attempt by Curzon

  and New Delhi

  Indian Mutiny (First War of Independence)

  Indian National Congress

  Indian Supreme Council

  Indian trade, and the British Empire

  Bengal’s trade and the East India Company see also East India Company

  Bombay’s cotton trade

  and China

  and the railways

  Indians, North American

  Indo-Saracenic architecture

  Indonesia see East Indies/Indonesia

  Industrial Revolution

  and Bombay

  and the railways

  influenza

  insurance businesses, Liverpool

  International Exhibition of Navigation, Travelling, Commerce and Manufacture

  Investigator, HMS

  Ireland/the Irish

  Anglican Church in Ireland

  Britain’s complex and colonial relationship with

  Catholicism

  civil society

  Constitution of, 1782

  and Cromwell

  Declaratory Act of, 1720 (Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act)

  Easter Rising

  economy

  ‘flight of the earls’ (1607)

  French threat to

  Great Famine (1845–52)

  immigration to Massachusetts

  Irish Mutiny Act

  Irish Patriot cause

  Irish POW labourers in West Indies

  migrants to Liverpool

  nationalism

  Orange Order Lodges

  Penal Acts

  Poynings’ Law

  Protestant Ascendancy

  rebellion of the United Irishmen

  and the Royal Navy

  trade and industry

  transformation from problem to partner in imperialism

  Ulster plantations

  Union with Great Britain

  and Winthrop

  Irish Republican Army

  Irish Times

  Irish Volunteers

  Irving, Robert Grant

  Irwin, Lord, E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

  Islam

  Bombay’s Muslim community

  Calcutta’s Muslim community

  and the Cape

  Gujarati Muslims

  mosques

  Italy

  Jacob, Sir Swinton

  Jacques, Martin

  Jafar, Mir

  Jahan Shah

  Jaipur, Albert Hall Museum

  Jamaica

  James I and VI

  James II

  James, C. L. R.

  Jamestown, Virginia

  Jamieson, How & Co.

  Janardhan, M. M.

  Janssens, J. W.

  Jardine, Matheson & Co.

  Jardine, William

  Jefferys, Nathaniel

  Jejeebhoy, Sir Jamsetjee

  School of Art

  Jekyll, Gertrude

  Jellicoe, George, 2nd Earl

  Jenkins, Sir John

  Jervis, Humphrey

 

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