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Ten books that shaped the British empire : creating an imperial commons / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Books--Great Britain--History.
- Books.
- Imperialism--Historiography.
- Imperialism.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Historiography.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (294 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Looking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.</div>
- Contents:
- Remaking the empire from Newgate : Wakefield's A letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne
- Jane Eyre at home and abroad / Charlotte Macdonald
- Macaulay's History of England : a book that shaped nation and empire / Catherine Hall
- "The Day Will Come" : Charles H. Pearson's National life and character : a forecast / Marilyn Lake
- Victims of "British justice"? A century of wrong as anti-imperial tract, core narrative of the Afrikaner "nation," and victim-based solidarity-building discourse / André du Toit
- The text in the world, the world through the text : Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for boys / Elleke Boehmer
- Hind Swaraj : translating sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud
- Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh : a history of empire and nation in a minor key / Mrinalini Sinha
- C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins and the making of the modern Atlantic world / Aaron Kamugisha
- Ethnography and cultural innovation in Mau Mau detention camps : Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya aagĩkũyũ / Derek R. Peterson.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781478093268
- 1478093269
- 9780822358275
- 0822358271
- 9780822375920
- 0822375923
- OCLC:
- 1139381494
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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