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A new imperial history : culture, identity, and modernity in Britain and the Empire, 1660-1840 / edited by Kathleen Wilson.
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English
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Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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xv, 385 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
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DA16 .N49 2004
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National characteristics, British
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History
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Imperialism
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History
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Great Britain
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Colonies
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History
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18th century
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Great Britain
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Colonies
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History
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17th century
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Great Britain
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Colonies
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History
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19th century
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Great Britain
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Civilization
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Summary note
This pioneering collection of essays charts an exciting new field in British studies, 'the new imperial history'. Leading scholars from history, literature and cultural studies tackle 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. 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. Based on ground-breaking research, these analyses of the imperial dimensions of British culture and identities in global contexts will challenge the notion that empire was something that happened 'out there', and they demonstrate its long-lasting implications for British identity and everyday life.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-373) and index.
Contents
Introduction: histories, empires, modernities / Kathleen Wilson
PART I. EMPIRE AT HOME: DIFFERENCE, REPRESENTATION, EXPERIENCE
Women and the fiscal-imperial state in late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries / Margaret Hunt
An "entertainment of oddities": fashionable sociability and the Pacific in the 1770s / Gillian Russell
The theatre of empire: racial counterfeit, racial realism / Felicity A. Nussbaum
Asians in Britain: negotiations of identity through self-representation / Michael H. Fisher
PART II. PROMISED LANDS: IMPERIAL ASPIRATIONS AND PRACTICE
"Rescuing the age from a charge of ignorance": gentility, knowledge, and the British exploration of Africa in the later eighteenth century / Philip J. Stern
Liberal government and illiberal trade: the political economy of "responsible government" in early British India / Sudipta Sen
"Green and pleasant lands": England and the Holy Land in plebeian millenarian culture, c. 1790-1820 / Eitan Bar-Yosef
Protestant evangelicalism, British imperialism, and Crusonian identity / Hans Turley
PART III. TIME, IDENTITY, AND ATLANTIC INTERCULTURE
Time and revolution in African America: temporality and the history of Atlantic slavery / Walter Johnson
The Green Atlantic radical reciprocities between Ireland and America in the long eighteenth century / Kevin Whelan
Brave Wolfe: the making of a hero / Nicholas Rogers
Ethnicity in the British Atlantic world, 1688-1830 / Colin Kidd
PART IV. ENGLISHNESS, GENDER, AND THE ARTS OF DISCOVERY
Writing home and crossing cultures: George Bogle in Bengal and Tibet, 1770-1775 / Kate Teltscher
Decoding the nameless: gender, subjectivity, and historical methodologies in reading the archives of colonial India / Durba Ghosh
Ornament and use: Mai and Cook in London / Harriet Guest
Thinking back: gender misrecognition and Polynesian subversions aboard the Cook voyages / Kathleen Wilson.
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ISBN
0521810272
9780521810272
0521007968 ((pbk.))
9780521007962 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2003049545
OCLC
53059841
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