At Home with the Empire
Metropolitan Culture and the Imperial World
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- Editors:
- Catherine Hall, University College London
- Sonya O. Rose, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Date Published: December 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521670029
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This pioneering 2006 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 how people thought imperially, not in the sense of political affiliations for or against empire, but simply assuming it was there, part of the given world that had made them who they were. They also show how empire became a contentious focus of attention at certain moments and in particular ways. This will be essential reading for scholars and students of modern Britain and its empire.
Read more- Timely contribution to the booming field of 'new imperial history'
- Written by leading scholars from history, art history, and literature
- The thematic approach of the volume will make it ideal as a course book for students in imperial and British history
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- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521670029
- length: 350 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 161 x 21 mm
- weight: 0.47kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: being at home with the Empire Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose
2. At home with history: Macaulay and the history of England Catherine Hall
3. A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800–present Laura Tabili
4. At home with Empire: the example of Ireland Christine Kinealy
5. The condition of women, women's writing and the Empire in nineteenth-century Britain Jane Rendall
6. Sexuality and Empire Philippa Levine
7. Religion and Empire at home Susan Thorne
8. Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire Joanna de Groot
9. Imagining Empire: history, fantasy and literature Cora Kaplan
10. New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century Antoinette Burton
11. Bringing the Empire home: women activists in imperial Britain, 1790s–1930s Clare Midgley
12. Taking class notes on Empire James Epstein
13. Citizenship and Empire 1867–1928 Keith McClelland and Sonya Rose
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