| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-329) and index. |
| Contents |
Being at home with the empire / Catherine Hall and Sonya Rose -- At home with history: Macaulay and the History of England / Catherine Hall -- A homogeneous society? Britain's internal 'others', 1800-present / Laura Tabili -- At home with the empire: the example of Ireland / Christine Kinealy -- The condition of women, women's writing and the empire in nineteenth-century Britain / Jane Rendall -- Sexuality and empire / Philippa Levine -- Religion and empire at home / Susan Thorne -- Metropolitan desires and colonial connections: reflections on consumption and empire / Joanna de Groot -- Imagining empire: history, fantasy and literature / Cora Kaplan -- New narratives of imperial politics in the nineteenth century / Antoinette Burton -- Bringing the empire home: women activists in imperial Britain,1790s-1930s / Clare Midgley -- Taking class notes on empire / James Epstein -- Citizenship and empire, 1867-1928 / Keith McClelland and Sonya Rose. |
| Summary |
This pioneering volume addresses the question of how Britain's empire was lived through everyday practices - in church and chapel, by readers at home, as embodied in sexualities or forms of citizenship, as narrated in histories. It will be essential reading for scholars and students of empire. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Imperialism -- Social aspects -- Great Britain.
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Imperialism -- Social aspects. |
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Great Britain. |
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Imperialism. |
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Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Civilization -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Hall, Catherine, 1946-
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Rose, Sonya O.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: At home with the empire. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521854067 9780521854061 (DLC) 2006025229 (OCoLC)70866927 |
| ISBN |
9780511261206 (electronic book) |
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0511261209 (electronic book) |
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0511258089 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511258084 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511259387 |
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9780511259388 |
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0511260032 |
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9780511260032 |
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1280749210 |
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9781280749216 |
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