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Zusatztext Burton gives us a new imperial literacy, re-ordering through re-lettering our ideas of key people, places, events and materials of the British Empire. Convict women, dagga, famine, Gandhi and jihad get encyclopaedia-like entries with useful bibliographies. This book will generate many new research projects, and remake our sense of what is historically important, geographically central, and politically consequential. Informationen zum Autor Antoinette Burton Klappentext An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames' ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames' book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria's reign.This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria's empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanistan and ending with Zam-Zammeh, the large-bore cannon that Kipling's hero sat astride at the opening of his 1901 novel, Kim. It signposts some of the key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the turbulent ground of empire across the long 19th century, providing a serious counterweight to the notion of imperial conquest as child's play.With each letter accompanied by a crisp yet historically nuanced account of its subject, this unique account is the perfect primer for students taking courses on global, imperial and British history. Vorwort An alphabet of the darker side of Queen Victoria's reign, covering key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the British empire over the long 19th century. Zusammenfassung An ABC of Queen Victoria's Empire offers a provocative rewriting of Mrs. Ernest Ames’ ABCs for Baby Patriots (1899). Whimsically illustrated for the nursery or primary school child, Ames’ book demonstrates how deeply imperialism reached into popular culture during Victoria’s reign.This book presents a rather darker view of Victoria’s empire, beginning with the wars in Afghanistan and ending with Zam-Zammeh, the large-bore cannon that Kipling’s hero sat astride at the opening of his 1901 novel, Kim. It signposts some of the key events, concepts, places and people that shaped the turbulent ground of empire across the long 19th century, providing a serious counterweight to the notion of imperial conquest as child’s play.With each letter accompanied by a crisp yet historically nuanced account of its subject, this unique account is the perfect primer for students taking courses on global, imperial and British history. Inhaltsverzeichnis Afghan Wars Bold Fenian Men Convict women Dagga Eyre, Jane Famine Gandhi, Mohandas K. Hosay Indenture Jihad Kingitanga Lascar Morant Bay Native Claim-making Opium Proclamation of the Irish Republic Queensland Sugar Red River Resistance Syphilis Tatya Tope Urabi Vande Mataram Winston Churchill Xhosaland Yakub Khan Zam-Zammah...
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Antoinette Burton is Professor of History and Swanlund Endowed Professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.
