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Auteur Français Gailey, Andrew, author.

Titre The lost imperialist : Lord Dufferin, memory and mythmaking in an age of celebrity / Andrew Gailey.

Table des matières
 Prologue1
pt. I The Ascendancy of Helen, 1826--72 
1.A Conflict of Traditions5
2.The Triumph of the Sheridans12
3.The Birth of ©ђuthentic' Dufferin23
4.⁺ђThe one great purpose and interest of my life'36
5.In Search of Favour46
6.The Politics of Romance56
7.The Thrill of Escape64
8.©ђny pearl?'72
9.Dangers Abroad83
10.Family Politics93
11.Missionary Politics105
12.Family Debts115
pt. II Troubleshooting, 1872--84 
13.Canada: The Imperial Frontier121
14.Frontier Politics127
15.Reinventing British Canada137
16.The Making of a Celebrity146
17.⁺ђThe man for high latitudes'153
18.Revolutionary Times161
19.Finding One's Assiette168
20.©ђ master of his profession'177
21.Statecraft and the Art of Casting a Veil184
pt. III Kipling's Viceroy: Dufferin in India, 1884--8 
22.An Indian Inheritance199
23.Governing India205
24.Playing the Great Game216
25.Tiger Shooting with Churchill223
26.The Military Consequences of Lord Randolph Churchill233
27.A Very Public Private Life242
28.Parents and Lovers: An Indian Childhood250
29.Dufferin's India257
30.Hariot's Indians265
31.Face to Face with the New India274
32.Counter-attack280
33.Conclusion: Kipling's Viceroy?288
pt. IV Making it Up, 1889--1902 
34.Roman Holiday301
35.The Great Prize306
36.Making Sheridans315
37.Funding Sheridans326
38.Decline and Fall332
39.At the Last341
40.Mythmaking and the Biographers345
 Epilogue: In the Shadows of Ancestors354
 Acknowledgements359
 Illustration Credits363
 Notes365
 Sources and Bibliography429
 Index441

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 Innovative University Library  DA17.D9 G35 2015    AVAILABLE
Description 454 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-439) and index.
Sujet Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902.
Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of, 1826-1902. (OCoLC)fst00092913.
Colonial administrators -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Viceroys -- India -- Biography.
Governors -- Canada -- Biography.
Genre Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686.
ISBN 9781444792430
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