Imperial administration channeled metropolitan middle classes into colonial careers
Evidence
Like Russification, Anglicization naturally also offered rosy opportunities to armies of middle-class metropolitans (not least Scotsmen!) – functionaries, schoolmasters, merchants, and planters – who quickly fanned out over the vast, permanently sunlit realm. — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 364
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Imperial service attracted men unwilling to outgrow boyhood ideals; Colonial education aimed to create a compliant middle class to support European colonization; Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (+2 more)
Related
- Imperial service attracted men unwilling to outgrow boyhood ideals (similarity 0.81)
- Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- Colonial education produced a deracinated Black middle class serving as intermediaries.
#expands(0.88) - Colonial education aimed to create a compliant middle class to support European colonization
#expands(0.85) - Colonial bureaucracies massively employed indigenes but maintained hierarchy
#expands(0.82) — Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities, 490 - Colonial authorities aimed to manage subjects’ aspirations as a political necessity
#expands(0.80)