Colonial lives across the British Empire : imperial lives careering in the long nineteenth century /edited by David Lambert and Alan Lester.

"This volume uses a series of portraits of 'imperial lives' in order to rethink the history of the British Empire in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.... These men and women consist of four colonial governors, two governors' wives, two missionaries, a nurse/entrepreneur, a poet/civil servant and a mercenary."--Dust jacket.