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Record Nr.

UNINA9910647296603321

Titolo

Ten books that shaped the British empire : creating an imperial commons / / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2014

ISBN

9781478093268

1478093269

9780822358275

0822358271

9780822375920

0822375923

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BurtonAntoinette M. <1961->

HofmeyrIsabel

Disciplina

909.09/71241

909.0971241

Soggetti

Books - Great Britain - History

Imperialism - Historiography

Great Britain Colonies Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

<div>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.</div>