| Description |
xv, 385 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
1. Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century London. -- 2. An 'entertainment of oddities': fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s. -- 3. The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism. -- 4. Asians in Britain: negotiations of identity through self-representation. -- 5. 'Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance': gentility, knowledge, and British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century. -- 6. Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of 'responsible government' in early British India. -- 7. 'Green and pleasant lands:' England and the Holy Land in Plebeian Millenarian Culture, 1790-1820. -- 8. Protestant Evangelicalism, British Imperialism and Crusonian Identity. -- 9. Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery. -- 10. The green Atlantic: radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century. -- 11. Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero. -- 12. Ethnicity in the Atlantic world. -- 13. Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775. -- 14. Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity and historical methodologies in re-reading the archives of colonial India. -- 15. The Englishness of Omai. -- 16. Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages |
| Summary |
"This collection of essay charts, for the first time, the emergent terrain of an exciting new field in British studies, the "new imperial history." Leading scholars from history, literature, and cultural studies take on the problems of identity, modernity, and difference in eighteenth-century Britain and the empire. They examine, from interdisciplinary perspectives, the reciprocal influences of empire and culture, the movements of peoples, practices, and ideas effected by slavery, diaspora and British dominance, and ways in which subaltern, non-western, and non-elite people shaped British power and knowledge. Creating a colorful and original colonial landscape, the essays move through Britain, America, India, Africa, and the South Pacific in testament to the networks of people, commodities, and entangled pasts forged by Britain's imperial adventures."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-373) and index |
| Notes |
Also available online (Table of contents) |
| Subject |
Natural characteristics, British -- History
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National characteristics, British -- History.
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Imperialism -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
United Kingdom -- Colonies http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056632 -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005029
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 18th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100238
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056645 -- 17th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002012473
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United Kingdom -- Colonies -- History -- 19th century.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100239
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United Kingdom -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056619
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| Author |
Wilson, Kathleen.
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| LC no. |
2003049545 |
| ISBN |
0521007968 paperback |
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0521810272 |
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