{"id":2875,"date":"2020-04-28T14:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T13:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/history\/?p=2875"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T14:31:56","slug":"new-publication-from-vicky-randall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/2020\/04\/28\/new-publication-from-vicky-randall\/","title":{"rendered":"New Publication from Vicky Randall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am pleased (relieved?) to announce the publication of my new book <em>History, Empire, and Islam: E. A. Freeman and Victorian Public Morality <\/em>(March, Manchester University Press, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primarily\nthis book is concerned with the major nineteenth-century historian, Edward\nFreeman, who wrote many books about the history of Britain\u2019s relationship with\nthe rest of the world, and was also an influential public commentator on\ninternational affairs. From a wider perspective, however, the book casts new\nlight on the ways in which Britain\u2019s sense of \u2018self\u2019 was constructed in the\nnineteenth century, and how racial and religious stereotypes about the Eastern\n\u2018other\u2019 were used to justify the subjugation of Oriental peoples. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"327\" height=\"185\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2020\/04\/9781526135810-e1588081681765.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2020\/04\/9781526135810-e1588081681765.jpg 327w, https:\/\/sites.glos.ac.uk\/history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/159\/sites\/446\/2020\/04\/9781526135810-e1588081681765-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Freeman is an interesting case study as his ideas show up some of the nuances and contradictions in thinking about history, empire, and Islam during the Victorian period. Freeman was both a fervent racist and Islamophobe, and a critic of imperial expansion. He mocked the East, but was also deeply afraid of an \u2018Oriental conspiracy\u2019 &#8211; a plot between the the Ottoman Turks and the Jewish people to bring about the downfall of Western civilization. My book therefore asks questions about \u2018white fragility\u2019 in the nineteenth century and suggests that insecurities about self-identity and racial chauvinism interacted in interesting and often overlooked ways. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To find out more about Vicky&#8217;s book, click <a href=\"https:\/\/manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk\/9781526135810\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am pleased (relieved?) to announce the publication of my new book History, Empire, and Islam: E. A. Freeman and Victorian Public Morality (March, Manchester University Press, 2020). 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