ABSTRACT
Changing notions of race in the metropole and a new settler-dominated politics in the colonies signaled the emergence of a new imperial order from the 1860s. Settler politics replaced a weakened humanitarianism as the defining discourse of British imperial domination. Racial politics in imperial culture reconfigured the relationship between empire and liberalism. The anxieties and contradictions that had marked the humanitarian attitude toward Indigenous culture and politics were resolved. The conditions were established for a more comfortable relationship between liberalism and empire. The uncertainties and instabilities of the imperial order of the early nineteenth century were resolved.
