This article explores Conservative critiques of Whig colonial rule in the 1830s. Its case is that imperial administrative and constitutional issues occupied a more prominent place in the Tories’ politics of opposition during the ‘decade of Reform’ than historians have assumed. Conservative writers and politicians styled themselves as vigorous defenders of imperial integrity, colonial constitutions, and the colonial church, against the incoherent centralizing and liberalizing innovations of the Whigs. These arguments rested on wider assumptions about the inherent failings of Whiggism, Reformed government and the pernicious global consequences of ‘liberalism’. The article asks how these claims affect our understanding of Conservative politics after the Reform crisis, and reflects on the emergence of new forms of political engagement with issues of colonial government in early nineteenth-century Britain.

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保守政治和辉格党殖民政府，1830–41

本文探讨了保守派对 1830 年代辉格党殖民统治的批评。它的例子是，在“改革十年”期间，帝国行政和宪法问题在保守党的反对政治中占据了比历史学家所假设的更为突出的位置。保守的作家和政治家将自己标榜为帝国完整性、殖民宪法和殖民教会的有力捍卫者，反对辉格党不连贯的集权和自由化创新。这些论点建立在更广泛的假设之上，即关于辉格党、改革宗政府的固有缺陷以及“自由主义”的有害全球后果。文章询问这些主张如何影响我们在改革危机后对保守派政治的理解，