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Barry Crosbie, Mark Hampton - Cultural Construction of the British World, Häftad

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Cultural Construction of the British World

Av Barry Crosbie, Mark Hampton

Del 132 i serien Studies in Imperialism

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What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the case for a ‘cultural British world’, and examines how it took shape in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand. Eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary criticism, travel narratives, and household possessions. The book argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British world a sense of cohesion and identity. The cultural construction of the British world will be essential reading for historians of imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural history.
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Barry Crosbie is Assistant Professor of History at The Hong Kong Institute of EducationMark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

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'This volume brings together some of the most eminent scholars of British imperial history, and provides a thought-provoking showcase for a range of innovative approaches to the cultural history of empire. The essays set new agendas for future research, and offer fascinating insights into the cultural connectedness of a once-British world.'Simon J. Potter, Reader in Modern History at the University of Bristol'"Culture" here knows no bounds. It hails politics, the popular, military, capital and the body – not simply to show their interconnections but to track the ways that empire itself both integrated and compartmentalised the terrains it aimed to colonise.'Antoinette Burton, Professor of History and Bastian Professor of Global and Transnational Studies at the University of Illinois

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