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1 online resource (vii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-260) and index. |
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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 Mhrga ya aagky / Derek R. Peterson. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
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. |
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English. |
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Books -- Great Britain -- History.
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Imperialism -- Historiography.
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Great Britain -- Colonies -- Historiography.
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Livres -- Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire.
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Impérialisme -- Historiographie.
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Grande-Bretagne -- Colonies -- Historiographie.
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HISTORY -- World.
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Books
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British colonies
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Historiography
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Imperialism -- Historiography
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Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
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History
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| Added Author |
Burton, Antoinette M., 1961- editor
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Hofmeyr, Isabel, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ten books that shaped the British empire. Durham : Duke University Press, 2014 9780822358138 9780822358275 (DLC) 2014020054 (OCoLC)873985097 |
| ISBN |
9780822375920 (electronic bk.) |
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0822375923 (electronic bk.) |
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9780822358138 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0822358131 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780822358275 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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0822358271 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
| Standard No. |
10.1515/9780822375920 doi |
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AU@ 000056014855 |
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DEBBG BV044197600 |
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DEBSZ 422995096 |
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DEBSZ 446068586 |
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