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Author Barczewski, Stephanie L., author.

Title Heroic failure : the British / Stephanie Barczewski
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Heroic failure in Britain prior to 1850 -- Sir John Franklin -- The charge -- David Livingstone -- The 'last stand' -- General Gordon -- Captain Scott
Summary In this work, historian Stephanie Barczewski argues that Britain's embrace of heroic failure initially helped to gloss over the moral ambiguities of imperial expansion. Later, it became a strategy for coming to terms with diminishment and loss. Filled with compelling, moving, and often humourous stories from history, Barczewski's survey offers a fresh way of thinking about the continuing legacy of empire in British culture today
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
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Subject National characteristics, British.
Failure (Psychology) -- Great Britain -- History
Heroes -- Great Britain -- History
British.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
British
Civilization
Failure (Psychology)
Heroes
National characteristics, British
United Kingdom, Great Britain.
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899.
20th century, c 1900 to c 1999.
European history.
History.
Biography: general.
Biography: arts & entertainment.
Biography: sport.
Popular culture.
Cultural studies: customs & traditions.
Social, group or collective psychology.
Geographical discovery & exploration.
History.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- Civilization. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056619
Subject Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2015023660
ISBN 9780300186819
0300186819
9781118993101
1118993101