M. Silvestri

Ireland and India

Nationalism, Empire and Memory

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-21674-7
• 2009
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 514g
• ISBN-13: 9780230216747
• ISBN-10: 0230216749
• Artikelnr.: 26569378

Autorenporträt

MICHAEL SILVESTRI is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Introduction 'An Assertion of Liberty Incarnate': Irish and Indian Nationalists in North America 'The Sinn Féin of India': The Reception of Irish Revolutionary Nationalism in Bengal 'Lord and Master Nikkal Seyn': The Construction of John Nicholson as a British Imperial Hero An 'Irish Paladin': John Nicholson as an Ulster and Irish Imperial Hero 'The Remains of Ireland's Loneliest Martyr': The Commemoration of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny 'Enemies of the Empire'? The Imperial Context of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny Conclusion Bibliography