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Author Groot, Johanna de.

Title Empire and history writing in Britain c. 1750-2012 / Johanna de Groot.

Publication Info. Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 289 pages).
text file
Series Historical approaches
Historical approaches.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary This wide-ranging and accessible book examines the effects of British imperial involvements on history writing in Britain since 1750. It provides a chronological account of the development of history writing in its social, political, and cultural contexts, and an analysis of the structural links between those involvements and the dominant concerns of that writing. The author looks at the impact of imperial and global expansion on the treatment of government, of social structures and changes and of national and ethnic identity in scholarly and popular works, in school histories, and in "famous" history books. 0In a clear and student-friendly way, the book argues that involvement in empire played a transformative and central role within history writing as whole, reframing its basic assumptions and language, and sustaining a significant "imperial" influence across generations of writers and diverse types of historical text.0.
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Subject Great Britain -- Colonies -- Historiography.
Great Britain.
Colonies.
Historiography.
Imperialism -- Historiography.
Imperialism -- Historiography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Groot, Johanna de. Empire and history writing in Britain c. 1750-2012. Manchester : Manchester University Press ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 9780719090455 0719090458
ISBN 9781781706046 (electronic book)
1781706042 (electronic book)
9781526110978 (electronic book)
1526110970 (electronic book)
9780719090455 (hardback)
0719090458 (hardback)
9780719090462 (paperback)
0719090466 (paperback)