CONTENTS List of Abbreviations ix INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1. London in 1900 3 PART II IMPERIAL LONDON CHAPTER 2. The Face of Imperial London 17 CHAPTER 3. The Nexus of Empire 37 CHAPTER 4. The City 64 CHAPTER 5. Popular Culture in the Imperial Metropolis 93 PART II. ALTERNATIVE IMPERIAL LONDONS CHAPTER 6. Limning Female Gender Boundaries 119 CHAPTER 7. London's Radical and Celtic Fringe 162 CHAPTER 8. Dadabhai Naoroji and the Search for Respect 184 CHAPTER 9. Roots of the Pan-African Conference 203 CONCLUSION CHAPTER 10. The Khaki Election of 1900 229 Notes 265 Bibliography 307 Acknowledgments 323 Index 325