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divisions within the strategic emphasis of the Empire.
Thus, Boston and the slave economy of Bridgetown,
Barbados, symbolize Britain’s early commitment to,
and later turn from, the Atlantic, while Cape Town and
Calcutta represent Britain’s grown commitment to India
during the turn of the nineteenth century. Other cities
are emblematic of more ideological trends. For Hunt,
Bombay’s improved urban infrastructure is an expression of Britain’s self-proclaimed civilizing mission, while
Melbourne’s white settler colony epitomizes the late
nineteenth- and early twentieth-century belief in a racial
union between all Anglo-Saxons throughout the world.
The chapter on Melbour