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Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911 / by Reed, Charles V.

Table of Contents: “…'Positively cosmopolitan' : Britishness, respectability and imperial citizenship -- 5. The empire comes home : colonial subjects and the appeal for imperial justice --Postscript and conclusion.…”
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Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition /

Table of Contents: “…On becoming a British lake: piracy, slaving, and British imperialism in the Indian Ocean during the first half of the nineteenth century /…”
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Artistic Responses to Travel in the Western Tradition /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 7 Itinerant Hadrian and imperial patronage belonging to all the world /…”
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Empire, Islam, and politics of difference Ottoman rule in Yemen, 1849-1919 / by Kuehn, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…The 'return of the Turks': the campaigns of 1871-73 and the context of Tanzimat imperialism -- Imperial visions : knowledge production, empire, and the creation of difference, 1849-75 -- 'According to their customs and dispositions' : elaborating politics of difference in Ottoman Yemen, 1874-91 -- Struggling for a righteous order : the rise of the Zaydi imams and the reconfiguration of difference, 1890-1908 -- An imperial borderland as colony? …”
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Cartographic encounters indigenous peoples and the exploration of the new world / by Short, John R.

Table of Contents: “…Colonial cartographies -- pt. 3. Imperial cartographies -- pt. 4. Conclusions.…”
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Turkey, Islam, nationalism, and modernity a history, 1789-2007 / by Findley, Carter V., 1941-

Table of Contents: “…The return toward centralization -- The Tanzimat -- The reign of Abdülhamid -- Imperial demise, national struggle -- The early republic -- Turkey's widening political spectrum -- Turkey and the world.…”
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Civilizing natures race, resources, and modernity in colonial South India / by Philip, Kavita, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- A local story : English mud -- Forests -- Plantations -- Ethnographers -- Christianity -- A global story : imperial science rescues a tree -- Conclusion.…”
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Modernism and the women's popular romance in Britain, 1885-1925 by Hipsky, Martin

Table of Contents: “…Contexts of popular romance, 1885-1925 -- Mary Ward's romances and the literary field -- Marie Corelli and the discourse of romance -- The women's romance and the ideology of form -- The imperial erotic romance -- Modernism and the romance of interiority.…”
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Medical women and Victorian fiction by Swenson, Kristine, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Medical women old and new -- Angels of mercy -- Nightmare figures : backlash against the new nurse -- Sex and fair play : establishing the woman doctor -- The new woman doctor novel -- Medical women and imperial fiction.…”
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The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel : Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries / by Andres, Sophia, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian novel -- Elizabeth Gaskell's resistance to pre-Raphaelite gendered silence -- Wilkie Collins's reconfigurations of pre-Raphaelite gendered shadows -- George Eliot's pre-Raphaelite gendered imperialism -- Beyond gender boundaries : Edward Burne-Jones and Thomas Hardy.…”
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The Pre-Raphaelite Art of the Victorian Novel : Narrative Challenges to Visual Gendered Boundaries / by Andres, Sophia, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The pre-Raphaelites and the Victorian novel -- Elizabeth Gaskell's resistance to pre-Raphaelite gendered silence -- Wilkie Collins's reconfigurations of pre-Raphaelite gendered shadows -- George Eliot's pre-Raphaelite gendered imperialism -- Beyond gender boundaries : Edward Burne-Jones and Thomas Hardy.…”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Effeminism : The Economy of Colonial Desire / by Krishnaswamy, Revathi, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Reading colonial erotics -- The economy of colonial desire -- Manufacturing masculinity -- Imperial feminism in an age of homosocial colonialism : Flora Annie Steel's On the face of the waters -- Cartographies of homosocial terror : Kipling's gothic tales and Kim -- A grammar of colonial desire : E.M. …”
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Semi-detached empire suburbia and the colonization of Britain, 1880 to the present / by Kuchta, Todd, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Semi-detached empire -- Reverse colonization in The War of the worlds -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Anglo-Indian -- Outposts of progress: Joseph Conrad's suburban speculation -- Beyond the abyss: degeneracy and death in the Edwardian suburb -- Ressentiment and late-imperial fiction -- George Orwell and the road to West Bletchley -- Epilogue: "In the blood and not on the skin."…”
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Mercury and the making of California mining, landscape, and race, 1840-1890 / by Johnston, Andrew Scott

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: California, the quicksilver state -- British imperialism and California's quicksilver -- Money and power in California's quicksilver industry -- A geography of mercury mining in California -- Ethnic and racial hierarchies at New Almaden -- Race, technology and work in the 1870s -- Race, family, and camp life in the 1870s -- Conclusion: the legacy of mercury mining.…”
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The consuming temple : Jews, department stores, and the consumer revolution in Germany, 1880-1940 / by Lerner, Paul Frederick

Table of Contents: “…Jerusalem's terrain: the department store and its discontents in imperial Germany -- Dream worlds in motion: circulation, cosmopolitanism, and the Jewish question -- Uncanny encounters: the Thief, the Shop Girl, and the Department Store King -- Beyond the consuming temple: Jewish dissimilation and consumer modernity in provincial Germany -- The consuming fire: fantasies of destruction in German politics and culture.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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Revising the Clinic : Vision and Representation in Victorian Medical Narrative and the Novel / by Kennedy, Meegan, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…Curious observations, curious sights: the eighteenth-century case history -- Staging clinical realism in the Victorian periodical -- The sentimental eye in Dickens and Gaskell -- George Eliot's realist vision: mechanical observation and the production of sympathy -- Speculation and insight: experimental medicine and the expansion of realism -- Mapping an unnavigable river: Freud, Rider Haggard, and the imperial romance.…”
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The most musical nation Jews and culture in the late Russian empire / by Loeffler, James Benjamin

Table of Contents: “…Emancipating sounds : Anton Rubinstein and the rise of the Russian Jewish musician -- National voices, imperial echoes : Joel Engel and the Russian Jewish musical fin de siècle -- The most musical nation : the birth of the Society for Jewish Folk Music -- Frozen folk songs : modern Jewish culture between art and commerce -- The neighbors' melodies : the politics of music in war and revolution.…”
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A room of his own a literary-cultural study of Victorian clubland / by Black, Barbara J., 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The man in the club window -- A night at the club -- Conduct befitting a gentleman: mid-Victorian clubdom and the novel -- Clubland's special correspondents -- Membership has its privileges: the imperial clubman at home and away -- The pleasure of your company in late-Victorian Pall Mall -- A world of men: an elegy for clubbability -- Epilogue: A room of her own.…”
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