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Imperial nostalgia : how the British conquered themselves / Peter Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitchell, Peter, 1982- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism.
- Collective memory--Great Britain.
- Collective memory.
- Great Britain--Colonies--History.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- History.
- British colonies.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2021.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Associative magic: nostalgic time and the revolt against mourning
- 2. Inventing the tradition: how nostalgia made an empire
- 3. Sovereign bodies: Britain's imperial present
- 4. `The best and most perfect virtue': empire, race and free speech in the battle for the university
- 5. The adventures of the Imperial Wonder Boy: Rory Stewart and the fantasy of innocence
- 6. `Degraded underfoot perverse creatures': empire and the languages of class.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-232) and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 1526161311
- 9781526161314
- 9781526146205
- 1526146207
- OCLC:
- 1242026737
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