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This groundbreaking book challenges standard interpretations of metropolitan strategies of rule in the early nineteenth century. After the Napoleonic wars, the British government ruled a more diverse empire than ever before, and the Colonial Office responded by cultivating strong personal links with governors and colonial officials through which influence, patronage and information could flow. By the 1830's the conviction that personal connections were the best way of exerting influence within the imperial sphere went well beyond the metropolitan government, as lobbyists, settlers and missionar

Great Britain --- Colonies --- Administration --- History --- British government. --- British historiography. --- British imperialism. --- colonial governance. --- colonial lobbyists. --- governors. --- historical networking. --- imperial administration. --- imperial policies. --- information networks. --- information revolution. --- metropolitan politics. --- patronage networks. --- personal communications. --- private correspondence. --- unofficial correspondence.