Heroic failure : the British /

In this work, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humourou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barczewski, Stephanie L. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
Temas:
National characteristics, British.
Failure (Psychology) > Great Britain > History.
Heroes > Great Britain > History.
British.
Britanniques.
Échec > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
Héros > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Civilization.
Failure (Psychology)
Heroes.
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
European history.
History.
Biography: general.
Biography: arts & entertainment.
Biography: sport.
Popular culture.
Cultural studies: customs & traditions.
Social, group or collective psychology.
Geographical discovery & exploration.
Great Britain > Civilization.
Grande-Bretagne > Civilisation.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Heroic failure in Britain prior to 1850
  • Sir John Franklin
  • The charge
  • David Livingstone
  • The 'last stand'
  • General Gordon
  • Captain Scott.

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