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Ten books that shaped the British empire : creating an imperial commons /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- (Editor ), Hofmeyr, Isabel (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.