Proclaiming a Protectorate over Uganda: The Liberal Party and Late Victorian Empire, 1892-95
Resource
臺大歷史學報, 39, 315-367
Journal
臺大歷史學報
Journal Issue
39
Pages
315-367
Date Issued
2007-06
Date
2007-06
Author(s)
Abstract
This research aims to expound the Liberal Party's attitude and policy towards the establishment of the Uganda protectorate in the mid-1890s, thereby revealing the conflict and reconciliation between modem liberalism and imperialism. This study examines five points at issue: 1. Uganda and East Africa in the perspective of British imperial strategy; 2. The Uganda Question as a test of the Liberals’ formulae on imperial politics, esp. Gladstonianism and Roseberianism; 3. The Uganda Question in the context of home and international politics; 4. The Uganda business under the Rosebery Government from 1894 to 1895; 5. The solution of the Uganda Question and its impacts upon "Liberal Imperialism" in practice. In general, these issues explain the way-however different from that of the Conservatives-the Liberals contributed to the expansion of the British Empire. This treatise shows that the annexation of Uganda was a cheap enterprise, and that the "New Imperialism" in the late nineteenth century was to a great extent a byproduct of European power politics based upon a sophisticated nation-state system. More often than not, therefore, prestige mattered more than "material" things in the decision-making of foreign policy, as popular politics was rapidly taking shape in the first Western democracies. A forward policy in Africa might not always be preferable for the Liberals, yet a policy of retreat was never endorsed. So, the controversies over Uganda had, after all, little effect on the advance of the British West African empire.
Subjects
自由黨
烏干達
格蘭斯敦
羅斯柏理
埃及
英屬東非公司
波特
Liberal Party
Uganda
Gladstone
Rosebery
IBEA
liberalism
Portal
SDGs
Type
journal article
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