History, Empire, and Islam: E. A. Freeman and Victorian Public Morality

Randall, Vicky ORCID: 0000-0002-4923-3070 (2020) History, Empire, and Islam: E. A. Freeman and Victorian Public Morality. Studies in Imperialism . Manchester University Press, Manchester. ISBN 9781526135810

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Abstract

This book offers the first comprehensive treatment of the historian and public moralist E. A. Freeman since the publication of W. R. W. Stephens' Life and Letters of Edward A. Freeman (1895). While Freeman is often viewed by modern scholars as a panegyrist to English progress and a proponent of Aryan racial theory, this study suggests that his world-view was more complicated than it appears. Revisiting Freeman's most important historical works, this book positions Thomas Arnold as a significant influence on Freeman's view of world-historical development. Conceptualising the past as cyclical rather than unilinear, and defining race in terms of culture, rather than biology, Freeman's narratives were pervaded by anxieties about recapitulation. Ultimately, this study shows that Freeman's scheme of universal history was based on the idea of conflict between Euro-Christendom and the Judeo-Islamic Orient, and this shaped his engagement with contemporary issues.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Islam; Empire; British imperialism; REF2021
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Vicky Randall
Date Deposited:	01 Nov 2019 15:23
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 08:54
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/7489

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