Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire : Creating an Imperial Commons /

Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire : Creating an Imperial Commons /

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Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë'...

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Other Authors: Tridip, Suhrud (Contributor, contribtor.), Tony, Ballantyne (Contributor, contribtor.), Mrinalini, Sinha (Contributor, contribtor.), Marilyn, Lake (Contributor, contribtor.), Isabel, Hofmeyr (Contributor, contribtor.), Hofmeyr, Isabel (Editor), Elleke, Boehmer (Contributor, contribtor.), Derek R., Peterson (Contributor, contribtor.), Charlotte, Macdonald (Contributor, contribtor.), Catherine, Hall (Contributor, contribtor.), Burton, Antoinette (Editor), Antoinette, Burton (Contributor, contribtor.), André, Du Toit (Contributor, contribtor.), Aaron, Kamugisha (Contributor, contribtor.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
HISTORY > World.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons
  • 1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield's A Letter from Sydney
  • 2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad
  • 3. Macaulay's History of En gland: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire
  • 4. "The Day Will Come": Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast
  • 5. Victims of "British Justice"? A Century of Wrong as Anti- imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner "Nation," and Victim- Based Solidarity- Building Discourse
  • 6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden- Powell's Scouting for Boys
  • 7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty
  • 8. Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key
  • 9. C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World
  • 10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index

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