Staging Governance - Theatrical Imperialism in London, 1770 - 1800

Acknowledgments ix Introduction The Supplementation of Imperial Sovereignty 1(32) PART ONE Ethnographic Acts 33(82) Empire's Vicious Expenses Samuel Foote's The Nabob and the Credit Crisis of 1772 43(31) ``As Much as Science Can Approach Barbarity'' Pantomimical Ethnography in Omai; or, A Trip round the World 74(41) PART TWO Women and the Trials of Imperial Masculinity 115(144) Inchbald's Indies Meditations on Despotism circa 1784 125(39) The Raree Show of Impeachment 164(95) Moliere's Old Woman Judging and Being Judged with Frances Burney 222(37) PART THREE A Theatre of Perpetual War 259(90) Starke Reforms Martial Masculinity and the Perils of Indianization 269(43) War and Precinema Tipu Sultan and the Allure of Mechanical Display 312(37) Afterword Recreational Alterity 349(10) Notes 359(42) Index 401