03231nam 22006374 450 99659957230331620140919015519.01-4780-9326-90-8223-5827-10-8223-7592-310.1515/9780822375920(CKB)2670000000578014(EBL)1866481(SSID)ssj0001382025(PQKBManifestationID)11888266(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001382025(PQKBWorkID)11438551(PQKB)11511048(MiAaPQ)EBC1866481(OCoLC)1139381494(MdBmJHUP)muse80755890944437(DE-B1597)552166(DE-B1597)9780822375920(OCoLC)1224279115(ScCtBLL)14b3f2cc-129b-4035-b343-68e1438570da(EXLCZ)99267000000057801420140919d2014 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTen books that shaped the British empire creating an imperial commons /Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editorsDurham :Duke University Press,2014.1 online resource (294 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-322-33523-0 0-8223-5813-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.<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>BooksGreat BritainHistoryImperialismHistoriographyGreat BritainColoniesHistoriographyBooksHistory.ImperialismHistoriography.909.09/71241Burton Antoinette M.1961-920758Hofmeyr Isabel657286NDDNDDBOOK996599572303316Ten books that shaped the British empire3009526UNISA