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

• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (294 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.09/71241; 909.0971241
• Soggetto topico: Books - Great Britain - History; Imperialism - Historiography
• Soggetto geografico: Great Britain Colonies Historiography
• Altri autori: BurtonAntoinette M. <1961-> HofmeyrIsabel
• 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>
• Titolo autorizzato: Ten books that shaped the British empire
• ISBN: 9781478093268; 1478093269; 9780822358275; 0822358271; 9780822375920; 0822375923
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910647296603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II