Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire : Creating an Imperial Commons /
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
[2015]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Spine of Empire? Books and the Making of an Imperial Commons
- 1. Remaking the Empire from Newgate: Wakefield's A Letter from Sydney
- 2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad
- 3. Macaulay's History of En gland: A Book That Shaped Nation and Empire
- 4. "The Day Will Come": Charles H. Pearson's National Life and Character: A Forecast
- 5. Victims of "British Justice"? A Century of Wrong as Anti- imperial Tract, Core Narrative of the Afrikaner "Nation," and Victim- Based Solidarity- Building Discourse
- 6. The Text in the World, the World through the Text: Robert Baden- Powell's Scouting for Boys
- 7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty
- 8. Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh: A History of Empire and Nation in a Minor Key
- 9. C. L. R. James's The Black Jacobins and the Making of the Modern Atlantic World
- 10. Ethnography and Cultural Innovation in Mau Mau Detention Camps: Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya Agĩkũyũ
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index