Imperial Statesmen: Who Truly Ran the British Empire and What is Their Legacy?

帝国政治家：谁真正统治着大英帝国，他们的遗产是什么？

• 批准号: 2893533
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Nottingham Trent University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2893533
• 关键词: Imperial; Statesmen; Who; Truly; Ran

Context: My PhD addresses the locus of 'power' as the British administrative and information state grewrapidly in the first half of Britain's 'Imperial Century', between 1825 and 1855. The historiographicalliterature (Porter, 1999; Searle, 2004, Hyam, 2010) is replete with leadership figureheads, 'systems', andthe development of a Civil Service. Yet in terms of the extension of State knowledge and reach we knownext to nothing about how power was claimed, distributed, controlled and wielded at lower levels of thenascent State apparatus. Higg's magisterial 2001 analysis of the rise of the British information stateacknowledged the need to study these lower levels of government to uncover the 'real' seat of power.None has been forthcoming. My project will fill this gap through the medium of the British Empire'sdomestic colonial administration. I focus on the Colonial Office (disbanded 1966) as opposed to other,perhaps more easily accessible and widely known, departments because although popular and academicdiscourse around the Empire and the nature of Colonial administration has grown rapidly, very littleattention has been given to the importance of the administration of empire in shaping and formalisingthe power structures at the lower levels of the domestic Civil Service. We know much more aboutinformation and people flows and Colonial administrators in situ than we do about the importance ofEmpire for the domestic information state project.Key Questions:With which key individuals and officeholders did power reside?7 / 22What relationship existed between these individuals?How, individually and collectively, did they seek to defend, accrue and use political and administrativepower?What is the legacy of this process and experience for modern British government institutions?Method: My project focuses on individual administrators at lower levels of government. It uses (seeoffsite activities) letters by Colonial administrators to colleagues, superiors, and subordinates, privatejournals, personal letters, government acts and gazettes, sessional papers, and confidential memorandato reconstruct their individual and collective understandings of and relationships with political andadministrative power. The work will adopt Higg's 2001 three strand definition of 'power' (assumed,devolved, discretionary) and transcribed data will be coded to identify linguistic patterns in relation tothis definition. I will use NVivo to analyse the whole corpus and supplement this broad analysis withdetailed case studies of individuals, particular time periods and particular events that emerge aswaymarkers in the extension of the information state.Impact: There is a concerted attempt to decolonise the past and (more widely) to explore groups andindividuals whose stories have been either ignored or suppressed. While it may seem that my projectfocuses on 'traditional' themes of politics and governance, this is not the case. In analysing the rise ofthe lower Civil Service I will both make a contribution to the literatures on governance and Colonialismbut also uncover the stories of those outside the political elite who have risen to become a part of it fromoften humble beginnings, including a significant number of white and non-white immigrants by the1850s.

背景：我的博士学位在1825年至1855年之间在英国上半年的英国行政和信息状态介绍了“权力”的源头。充满了领导力的人物，“系统”和公务员的发展。然而，在扩展国家知识和覆盖方面，我们知道如何在较低的降级状态设备中声称，分发，控制和挥舞力量。希格（Higg）对英国信息的兴起的2001年司法分析，阐明了研究这些较低层次的政府的需求，以揭示“真正的”权力所在地。我的项目将通过大英帝国统治殖民管理的媒介来填补这一空白。我专注于殖民地办公室（解散的1966年），而不是其他，也许更容易获得和广为人知的部门，尽管帝国周围的流行和学术界以及殖民行政管理的性质迅速增长，但对这种重要性的重要性已经迅速发展。在国内公务员较低层次的塑造和形成帝国管理方面的管理。我们对信息的了解更多，人们对现场的流动和殖民地管理员的了解要比对empire对国内信息国家项目的重要性的了解。关键问题：与哪些主要个人和办公室持有人居住在这些人之间？7/22这些人之间存在什么关系？他们是否寻求捍卫，积累和使用政治和行政权力？对现代英国政府机构的遗产和经验是什么？方法：我的项目专注于政府较低级别的个人管理员。它使用殖民行政人员的信件（参见seeoffsite活动）给同事，上级和下属，私人journals，个人信件，政府行为和宪报，会议论文以及机密的备忘录，并重建了他们的个人和集体理解，以及与政治和部门分机的关系。这项工作将采用希格（Higg）2001年的“权力”（假定，权力下放，可酌情）的三个链定义，并将编码转录的数据以识别关系定义中的语言模式。我将使用NVIVO分析整个语料库，并补充这种广泛的分析，以详细研究个人，特定的时间段和特定事件，这些事件在信息状态的扩展中出现了大量标记。更广泛的）探索群体和个人的故事被忽略或被压制。虽然我的ProjectFocuses涉及政治和治理的“传统”主题，但事实并非如此。在分析较低公务员制度的崛起时，我既要为治理和殖民主义的文献做出贡献和1850年代的非白人移民。