At home with the empire : metropolitan culture and the imperial world / edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Catherine, 1946-

Rose, Sonya O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Imperialism.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.

Great Britain.

Civilization.

Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.

Physical Description:

ix, 338 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Summary:

An examination of everyday life practices in Britain's empire.

Contents:

1 Introduction: being at home with the Empire / Catherine Hall, Sonya Rose 1

2 At home with history: Macaulay and the History of England / Catherine Hall 32

3 A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present / Laura Tabili 53

4 At home with the Empire: the example of Ireland / Christine Kinealy 77

5 The condition of women, women's writing and the Empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Jane Rendall 101

6 Sexuality and empire / Philippa Levine 122

7 Religion and empire at home / Susan Thorne 143

8 Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire / Joanna de Groot 166

9 Imagining empire: history, fantasy and literature / Cora Kaplan 191

10 New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century / Antoinette Burton 212

11 Bringing the Empire home: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790s-1930s / Clare Midgley 230

12 Taking class notes on empire / James Epstein 251

13 Citizenship and empire, 1867-1928 / Keith McClelland, Sonya Rose 275.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521854061

0521854067

9780521670029

0521670020

OCLC:

70866927

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