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- Ten Books That Shaped the British Empire: Creating an Imperial Commons
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Duke University Press
summary
Combining insights from imperial studies and transnational book history, this provocative collection opens new vistas on both fields through ten accessible essays, each devoted to a single book. Contributors revisit well-known works associated with the British empire, including Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, Thomas Macaulay's History of England, Charles Pearson's National Life and Character, and Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys. They explore anticolonial texts in which authors such as C. L. R. James and Mohandas K. Gandhi chipped away at the foundations of imperial authority, and they introduce books that may be less familiar to students of empire. Taken together, the essays reveal the dynamics of what the editors call an "imperial commons," a lively, empire-wide print culture. They show that neither empire nor book were stable, self-evident constructs. Each helped to legitimize the other.
Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr, Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald, Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha, Tridip Suhrud, André du Toit
Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Elleke Boehmer, Catherine Hall, Isabel Hofmeyr, Aaron Kamugisha, Marilyn Lake, Charlotte Macdonald, Derek Peterson, Mrinalini Sinha, Tridip Suhrud, André du Toit
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 2. Jane Eyre at Home and Abroad
- pp. 50-70
- 7. Hind Swaraj: Translating Sovereignty
- pp. 153-167
- Bibliography
- pp. 239-260
- Contributors
- pp. 261-264
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822375920
Related ISBN(s)
9780822358138, 9780822358275, 9781478093268
MARC Record
OCLC
1139381494
Pages
293
Launched on MUSE
2020-02-19
Language
English
Open Access
Yes
Copyright
2014