Jane Lydon

Imperial Emotions

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 500g
• ISBN-13: 9781108498364
• ISBN-10: 1108498361
• Artikelnr.: 56711366

Autorenporträt

Jane Lydon is Professor of History and Wesfarmers Chair of Australian History at the University of Western Australia. Her research centres upon Australia's colonial past and its legacies in the present. She worked as an archaeologist before becoming a historian, and retains an interest in diverse forms of evidence for the past, especially photographic archives.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: emotions and empire
1. Children of empire: British nationalism and colonial utopias
2. Colonial 'blind spots': images of frontier conflict
3. Australian Uncle Tom's Cabins
4. The homeless of empire? Imperial outcasts in Bleak House
5. Christian heroes on the new frontier
6. Charity begins at home? Philanthropy, magic lantern slides and missionary performances
7. The Republican debate and popular royalism: 'a strange reluctance to actually shout at the Queen'
Bibliography
Index.