Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons
Language: English
Published by Duke University Press, 2014
- Softcover
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Small bump to top outer corner, otherwise a nice, clean copy. Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay's History of England, Charles Pearson's National Life and Character, and Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys. They explore anticolonial texts in which authors such as C. L. R. James and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped away at the foundations of imperial authority, and they introduce books that may be less familiar to students of empire.
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- Title
- Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons
- Author
- Burton, Antoinette ed.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Publication year
- 2014
- Condition
- Near fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0822358271
- ISBN 13
- 9780822358275
- Item weight
- 408 grams
- Dimensions
- 1.88 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr, Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald, Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha, Tridip Suhrud, André du Toit
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About the Author
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and Visiting Distinguished Global Professor at New York University. Her prize-winning books include Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading, 'We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told': Oral Historical Storytelling in a South African Chiefdom, and The Portable Bunyan: A Transnational History of The Pilgrim's Progress.
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