At Home with the Empire Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World

Name: At Home with the Empire Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
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ISBN: 9780521670029

ISBN-10: 0521670020

ISBN-13: 9780521670029

Edition: 2006

Authors: Catherine Hall, Sonya O. Rose, Sonya O. Rose

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This pioneering 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 from the eighteenth century to the present. Leading historians explore the imperial experience and legacy for those located, physically or imaginatively, 'at home,' from the impact of empire on constructions of womanhood, masculinity and class to its influence in shaping literature, sexuality, visual culture, consumption and history-writing. They assess both how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply…

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List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 12/21/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 350
Size: 6.34" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English




Introduction: being at home with the empire




At home with history: Macaulay and the history of England




A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800- present




At home with empire: the example of Ireland




The condition of women, women's writing and the empire in nineteenth-century Britain




Sexuality and empire




Religion and empire at home




Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire




Imagining empire: history, fantasy and literature




New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century




Bringing the empire home: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790s-1930s




Taking Class Notes on Empire




Citizenship and Empire 1867-1928



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