Peter Mitchell

Imperial nostalgia

How the British conquered themselves

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Produktbeschreibung

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9781526146205
• ISBN-10: 1526146207
• Artikelnr.: 58479598

Autorenporträt

Peter Mitchell is a writer and historian

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Introduction 1 The idea of empire in political crisis 2 Inventing
the Tradition 3 The History Wars and the Academics 4 The History Wars and
Everyone Else 5 Resurgent racial imaginaries of empire 6 Imperial gender
and the lure of the frontier 7 The upper class imperial drag show 8
Creating the white working class in Brexit Britain's hearts of darkness
Conclusion: Escaping the Empire Bibliography Index