Ten books that shaped the British empire : : creating an imperial commons / / Antoinette Burton and Isabel Hofmeyr, editors.
<div>Looking at ten books that shaped the modern British Empire, the contributors examine imperial classics, anticolonial blockbusters, and a range of pamphlets, assessing the effects of each one on key aspects of imperial history.</div>
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| Place / Publishing House: | Durham : : Duke University Press,, 2014. |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (294 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Remaking the empire from Newgate : Wakefield's A letter from Sydney / Tony Ballantyne
- Jane Eyre at home and abroad / Charlotte Macdonald
- Macaulay's History of England : a book that shaped nation and empire / Catherine Hall
- "The Day Will Come" : Charles H. Pearson's National life and character : a forecast / Marilyn Lake
- Victims of "British justice"? A century of wrong as anti-imperial tract, core narrative of the Afrikaner "nation," and victim-based solidarity-building discourse / André du Toit
- The text in the world, the world through the text : Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for boys / Elleke Boehmer
- Hind Swaraj : translating sovereignty / Tridip Suhrud
- Totaram Sanadhya's Fiji Mein Mere Ekkis Varsh : a history of empire and nation in a minor key / Mrinalini Sinha
- C.L.R. James's The Black Jacobins and the making of the modern Atlantic world / Aaron Kamugisha
- Ethnography and cultural innovation in Mau Mau detention camps : Gakaara wa Wanjau's Mĩhĩrĩga ya aagĩkũyũ / Derek R. Peterson.