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At Home With the Empire - Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

English · Paperback / Softback

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Klappentext An examination of everyday life practices in Britain's empire. Zusammenfassung 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. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: being at home with the Empire Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose; 2. At home with history: Macaulay and the history of England Catherine Hall; 3. A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present Laura Tabili; 4. At home with Empire: the example of Ireland Christine Kinealy; 5. The condition of women, women's writing and the Empire in nineteenth-century Britain Jane Rendall; 6. Sexuality and Empire Philippa Levine; 7. Religion and Empire at home Susan Thorne; 8. Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire Joanna de Groot; 9. Imagining Empire: history, fantasy and literature Cora Kaplan; 10. New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century Antoinette Burton; 11. Bringing the Empire home: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790s-1930s Clare Midgley; 12. Taking class notes on Empire James Epstein; 13. Citizenship and Empire 1867-1928 Keith McClelland and Sonya Rose; Select bibliography.

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Authors Catherine Hall, Catherine (University College London) Rose Hall, Catherine Rose Hall
Assisted by Catherine Hall (Editor), Catherine (University College London) Hall (Editor), Sonya O. Rose (Editor), Sonya O. (University of Michigan Rose (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.12.2006
 
EAN 9780521670029
ISBN 978-0-521-67002-9
No. of pages 350
Subject Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories

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