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General 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.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Chartist General
• Author: Edward Beasley
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 378
• EAN: 9781138699267
• ISBN: 9781138699267
• ID: 10956048
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Weight: 732 g
• Dimensions: 165 × 241 × 27 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. November 2016

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