The cultural construction of the British world (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Crosbie, Barry; Hampton, Mark

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Produktbeschreibung

What were the cultural factors that held the British world together? How was Britishness understood at home, in the Empire, and in areas of informal British influence? This book makes the case for a 'cultural British world', and examines how it took shape in a wide range of locations, ranging from India to Jamaica, from Sierra Leone to Australia, and from south China to New Zealand.

These eleven original essays explore a wide range of topics, including images of nakedness, humanitarianism, anti-slavery, literary criticism, travel narratives, legal cultures, visions of capitalism, and household possessions. The book argues that the debates around these issues, as well as the consumer culture associated with them, helped give the British world a sense of cohesion and identity.

This book will be essential reading for historians of imperialism and globalisation, and includes contributions from some of the most prominent historians of British imperial and cultural history.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Zando
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784996918
• Artikelnr.: 60361886

Autorenporträt

Barry Crosbie is Assistant Professor of History at The Hong Kong Institute of Education Mark Hampton is Associate Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Cinema Studies at Lingnan University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The cultural construction of the British world
Barry Crosbie and Mark Hampton 1. Naked natives and noble savages: the cultural work of nakedness in imperial Britain
Philippa Levine 2. British radicals in Asia and the persistence of empire c.1820
1950
C.A. Bayly 3. Sugar wars: the culture of free trade versus the culture of antislavery in Britain and the British Caribbean, 1840
50
Philip Harling 4. At home in the Ottoman Empire: humanitarianism and the Victorian diplomat
Michelle Tusan 5. A semi
exclusionary empire?: the use of British colonial ideals in Trinidad and Bengal
Martin J. Wiener 6. The curious case of the chabutra
wallahs: Britons and Irish imperial culture in nineteenth
century India
Barry Crosbie 7. Sorting out China: British accounts from pre
opium war Canton
John M. Carroll 8. John Stuart Mill's other island: the discourse of unbridled capitalism in post
war Hong Kong
Mark Hampton 9. Scrutiny abroad: literary criticism and the colonial public
Christopher Hilliard 10. Mr. Hickey's pictures: Britons and their collectibles in late eighteenth
century India
Tillman Nechtman 11. Material culture and Sierra Leone's civilising mission in the nineteenth century
Bronwen Everill Index