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At home with the empire : metropolitan culture and the imperial world / edited by Catherine Hall and Sonya O. Rose.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Imperialism--Social aspects--Great Britain.
- Imperialism.
- Great Britain--Civilization--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Civilization--20th century.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--19th century.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This pioneering 2006 volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories - from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
- Contents:
- Being at home with the empire / Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose
- At home with history: Macaulay and the History of England / Catherine Hall
- A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present / Laura Tabili
- At home with the empire: the example of Ireland / Christine Kinealy
- The condition of women, women's writing and the empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Jane Rendall
- Sexuality and empire / Philippa Levine
- Religion and empire at home / Susan Thorne
- Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire / Joanna de Groot
- Imagining empire: history, fantasy and literature / Cora Kaplan
- New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century / Antoinette Burton
- Bringing the empire home: women activists in imperial Britain,1790s-1930s / Clare Midgley
- Taking class notes on empire / James Epstein
- Citizenship and empire, 1867-1928 / Keith McClelland and Sonya Rose.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-16572-5
- 1-280-74921-0
- 0-511-26063-6
- 0-511-25938-7
- 0-511-26120-9
- 0-511-32000-0
- 0-511-80226-9
- 0-511-26003-2
- OCLC:
- 171140196
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